View photos from South Ossetia. In the first week of September, a cherry tree was blossoming in the ruins of Thalmann Street. Cherry trees never flower in autumn except after a war.

South Ossetia did the same following a war in 1991-92. Some 300,000 ethnic Georgians, 250,000 from Abkhazia and 50,000 from South Ossetia, remain displaced by the fighting.

The war in Ukraine has rattled neighboring countries and brought conflicts from the post-Soviet era to the forefront. One of them is the Georgia-Russia dispute over the South Ossetia region. Here ...

Five years ago, the ‘Five-Day War’ began in South Ossetia.The end result of the conflict was eventually the independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. Today, the center of the South Ossetian ...

Having exchanged fire on 9-10 July and incurred casualties on both sides, Georgia and its breakaway Republic of South Ossetia have retreated from the threshold of an all-out conflict, agreeing ...

President of South Ossetia Anatoly Bibilov (right) during the Victory Day military parade marking the 75th anniversary of the victory in World War II, on June 24, 2020 in Moscow.

Neither Georgia's ambassador to the United States nor South Ossetia's top diplomat believe their conflict is "frozen" but ... 12 years after what many consider Europe's first 21st-century war. ...

Last month’s Russian incursions into Georgia may have been "planned months in advance, awaiting only an appropriate pretext to act," according to EurasiaNet. Indeed, that Russia long had ...

South Ossetia has been a de facto Russian protectorate since Moscow's victory in the five-day war in Georgia. But the breakaway republic is becoming an embarrassment for the Kremlin, with a ...

South Ossetia War, 2008. During the lead-up to Russia’s 2008 invasion of the South Ossetia region in Georgia, Russian hackers launched a cyberdefamation campaign against its enemy.

Five years ago, war began in South Ossetia when Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili ordered his army to invade the breakaway republic. The following day, Russia announced it was sending its ...