Jul 22 2008 - Seattle PI
TBILISI, Georgia –– President Mikhail Saakashvili praised a joint military training program involving more than 1,000 U.S. Marines and soldiers at a former Soviet base Monday, amid heightened tensions with Moscow.
Sep 05 2008 - Washington Times
POTI, GEORGIA (AP) – The flagship of the U.S. Navy's Mediterranean fleet anchored outside a key Georgian port Friday, defiantly bringing in tons of humanitarian aid to a city still partly occupied by hundreds of Russian troops.
Sep 02 2008 - Washington Times
MOSCOW (AP) – Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that Russia will respond calmly to an increase in NATO ships in the Black Sea in the aftermath of the short war with Georgia, but promised that "there will be an answer."
Sep 01 2008 - Washington Times
GENEVA (AP) – A prominent human rights group says Georgia has admitted dropping cluster bombs in its military offensive to assert control over the restive province of South Ossetia.
Sep 01 2008 - Washington Times
MOSCOW (AP) – Russia warned the West on Monday against supporting Georgia's leadership, suggesting that the United States carried weapons as well as aid to the ex–Soviet republic and calling for an arms embargo until the Georgian government falls
Aug 31 2008 - Washington Times
KARALETI, GEORGIA (AP) – Traffic moved freely through a Russian checkpoint on Sunday, but crowds of refugees remained camped nearby, preferring hot tents and filthy toilets to the violence they fear awaits them at home.
Aug 28 2008 - Washington Times
VIENNA, AUSTRIA (AP) – Georgia's foreign minister says the ethnic cleansing of Georgians from the separatist province of South Ossetia has nearly been completed.
Aug 28 2008 - Washington Times
RUKHI, GEORGIA (AP) – Russian forces turned over 12 Georgian soldiers on the border of one of the separatist provinces under its control Thursday after the short war that outraged the West and brought Moscow's military deep into Georgia.
Aug 28 2008 - Seattle PI
TBILISI, Georgia –– Western leaders warned Russia on Wednesday to "change course," hoping to keep a conflict that already threatens a key nuclear pact and could even raise U.S. chicken prices from blossoming into a new Cold War.
Aug 27 2008 - Washington Times
BATUMI, GEORGIA (AP) – A U.S. military ship loaded with aid docked at a southern Georgian port Wednesday, and Russia sent three missile boats to another Georgian port as the standoff escalated over a nation devastated by war with Russia.
Aug 25 2008 - Seattle PI
TBILISI, Georgia –– President Mikheil Saakashvili of Georgia said Sunday that he planned to rebuild his country's shattered army, and that even after its decisive defeat in the war for control of one of Georgia's two separatist enclaves, he would continue to pursue a policy of uniting both enclaves under the Georgian flag.
Aug 25 2008 - Washington Times
ABOARD THE U.S.S. MCFAUL (AP) – A Russian general suggested that U.S. ships in the Black Sea loaded with humanitarian aid would worsen tensions already driven to a post–Cold War high by a short but intense war between Russia and Georgia.
Aug 24 2008 - Washington Times
TBILISI, GEORGIA (AP) – A train carrying oil products hit a land mine near Georgia's strategic central city of Gori on Sunday, causing at least two tanker cars to burst into flames, a government official said.
Aug 24 2008 - Washington Times
BATUMI, GEORGIA (AP) – A U.S. Navy warship carrying humanitarian aid anchored in the southern port of Batumi on Sunday, sending a strong signal of support to an embattled ally. In central Georgia, an oil train exploded and caught fire, sending plumes of black smoke into the air.
Aug 24 2008 - Washington Times
KHETAGUROVO, GEORGIA (AP) – Say hello in Georgian in this Ossetian hamlet these days, and the reply may be a scolding.
Aug 23 2008 - Washington Times
GORI, GEORGIA (AP) – A top Russian general on Saturday said his country's forces will keep patrolling the key Georgian Black Sea port of Poti even though it lies outside the areas where Russia claims it has the right to station soldiers in Georgia.
Aug 22 2008 - Washington Times
POTI, GEORGIA (AP) – Russian troops manned checkpoints and controlled traffic on major highways across Georgia and Russian military helicopters buzzed overhead Friday, the day that Russia's president had said a pullback would be complete.
Aug 22 2008 - Washington Times
IGOETI, GEORGIA (AP) – Russian military convoys rolled out of three key positions in Georgia and headed toward Moscow–backed separatist regions on Friday in a significant withdrawal two weeks after thousands of troops roared into the former Soviet republic.
Aug 21 2008 - Washington Times
TBILISI, GEORGIA (AP) – Some 240 war refugees are crammed into a former office building and there's no running water, but otherwise things are fine, a Georgian refugee told U.S. officials Thursday at a makeshift shelter.
Aug 21 2008 - Seattle PI
SACHKHERE, Georgia –– Russian forces dug trenches and built sentry posts deep inside Georgia on Wednesday, showing few signs they would pull back later this week as promised.
Aug 21 2008 - Washington Times
BELGRADE, SERBIA (AP) – Serbia's foreign minister said the link is clear _ U.S. and Western support for Kosovo's secession from Serbia has helped fuel tensions in Georgia's separatist province of South Ossetia.
