Thirty years after the 1992-1993 war, Abkhazia is celebrating Victory and Independence Day on September 30. However, internationally the unrecognized states of Abkhazia and South Ossetia are considered to be under de facto control of Russia.

The change was requested by the Catalan pro-independence parties on whose support the acting prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, is relying to form a new government after July’s general election resulted in a hung parliament.

Nine months into Azerbaijan’s effective blockade of a road linking its breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh to Armenia, a Russian truck has arrived in the enclave carrying humanitarian aid.

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The blockade of the Lachin corridor has now lasted eight months, trapping Nagorno-Karabakh with dwindling supplies of food and medicine. With the world concerned with conflicts in other places, Armenia appears irrelevant in the larger geopolitical calculations. Yet it remains oddly significant.

A photo report on the territory bordering South Ossetia and Abkhazia, Georgia’s Russian-occupied regions. Photographer Vitaly Malyshev traveled to the “Zone of Fear” to see what marks the 2008 war has left on the area.

‘Chasing Dreams’, an eight-part series aired on state TV, features testimony from dozens of soldiers

Latest in long history of nautical intimidations by Beijing, which lays unrecognized claim to almost all of the South China Sea.

Wong Chung-Wai’s images of the home he had to leave behind forgoes stereotypes for intimate portraits of the unseen.

UK asks bloc to clarify position after Buenos Aires declares ‘triumph’ over use of term in declaration.

North Korea is reported to have detained a serving US army soldier who crossed the heavily-fortified border from South Korea without permission. The man was on an organised tour of the UN-run zone dividing the two countries.

Israel has recognised Moroccan sovereignty over the disputed territory of Western Sahara, the Moroccan government and a statement from the Israeli prime minister’s office say. Rabat said on Monday that Israel is considering opening a consulate in Dakhla.

Warner Bros says map is ‘child-like’ after Vietnam accused film-makers of depicting China’s nine-dash line in South China Sea.

What happens to a people when their land disappears? Facing extinction, Tuvalu tries to create digital ‘twin’ to survive.

The 2020 Miss Vietnam Do Thi Ha and 2022 Miss Grand Vietnam Doan Thien An visited the Spratly Islands to entertain the naval troops stationed there.

While Bougainville’s Panguna mine was abandoned decades ago, mining has not stopped in the area. Families have set up makeshift houses in the gaping pit, and men, women and children pass their days digging for whatever gold and copper they can reach.

Dozens of protesters and NATO peacekeepers were injured on Monday in northern Kosovo as local Serbs protested against the installment of a Kosovo Albanian mayor.

Officials in Abkhazia want to rename the deepest cave in the world located on the territory of the republic because caver Alexander Verevkin, whose name it currently bears, has nothing to do with it and has never been to Abkhazia at all.

But separatist parties hope upcoming elections will revitalize the independence movement.