When Georgia pursued NATO membership in 2008, tensions with Russia reached a breaking point. What followed was a fast, brutal ...

South Ossetia declared its independence from Georgia in the early 1990s after a bloody war there between ethnic Georgians and Ossetians. South Ossetia's independence is not internationally recognized.

The war, Saakashvili said, "is not about South Ossetia. It has never been in the first place. It is about destroying a small democratic nation aspiring to live in peace, freedom and liberty." ...

In August 2008, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Georgia, marking Europe’s first war of the 21st century. Triggered by tensions over South Ossetia and Abkhazia, the war saw Russian ...

TASS/. The United National Movement party, which ruled in Georgia under former President Mikhail Saakashvili, started the war in South Ossetia in 2008 on order from abroad, Georgian Prime Minister ...

Georgia’s breakaway republic of South Ossetia was in the focus of a war between Russia and Georgia in 2008, declaring independence in the aftermath. More than 1,000 people were killed in a five ...

The smaller country's withdrawal from South Ossetia left Russian troops in control. Many towns were deserted with reports of 40,000 fleeing across the war zone. Some 50 ambulances were ferrying ...

Indeed, South Ossetia remains a bigger concern ... Bush and President Saakashvili did not prevent war between Russia and Georgia in 2008, and the United States under President Barack Obama has ...

Moscow is ready to restore diplomatic relations with Tbilisi, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Galuzin told the Russian newspaper Izvestia, adding that the initiative now depends on Georgia’s ...