Border Control
Monday, October 14, 2013 - 19:42
Armenia considers the consolidation of the CSTO military component an important factor in maintaining stability and security also in the South Caucasus.
Friday, October 11, 2013 - 10:07
Panjikidze stressed that this process has been even more exacerbated in recent months and the total length of the barbed wire constructed along the administrative border has already reached 35 kilometres.
Friday, October 11, 2013 - 09:35
An Iranian semi-official news agency reported Thursday that an armed group has killed five members of the elite Revolutionary Guards in a Kurdish area near the Iraqi border.
Friday, October 11, 2013 - 09:23
At least six Egyptian soldiers were wounded when improvised bombs targeted their armoured vehicles in the Sinai border town of Rafah on Friday, a security official said.
Friday, October 11, 2013 - 09:14
And in a reminder of the helplessness and paralysis felt by the international community over what to do, Israel's most visible strategy seems almost futile: It's building a fence.
Friday, October 11, 2013 - 08:13
The M23 rebel group has taken over a profitable part of the conflict gold trade in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, or DRC. It is using revenues from the illicit trade to benefit its leaders and supporters and fund its military campaign by building military alliances and networks with other armed groups that control territory around gold mines and by smuggling gold through Uganda and Burundi. M23 commander Sultani Makenga, who is also allegedly one of the rebels’ main recruiters of child soldiers according to the U.N. Group of Experts on Congo, is at the center of the conflict gold efforts.
Friday, October 11, 2013 - 00:00
A roundup of some of the top articles and news highlights from around Central Eurasia over the last week:
Central Asia:
Thursday, October 10, 2013 - 07:55
Tammuz missile attack ordered after two Israeli soldiers suffered light injuries by mortars fired from across border.
Thursday, October 10, 2013 - 07:22
UN warns about large number of refugees who will rush to the CSTO countries after withdrawal of anti-terrorist coalition troops from Afghanistan in 2014.
Thursday, October 10, 2013 - 07:19
I do not deny that we are getting ready for negative consequences.