Ten Georgian servicemen have been killed in Afghanistan in the last month. The appearance of a purported Taliban video threatening “jihad” against Georgia ignited a firestorm of political accusations among supporters of President Mikheil Saakashvili and Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili.

Countries in Central Europe and Central Asia are increasingly being ruled by autocratic governments with little regard for democracy, according to the 2013 "Nations In Transit" report by democracy watchdog Freedom House.

Former Georgian Prime Minister Ivane Merabishvili has started a hunger strike in pretrial detention.

Georgian investigators say they have found several caches filled with weapons, explosives, drugs, and documents targeting opponents of Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili's party.

Georgia's Interior Ministry has pledged to destroy a secret archive of illegally obtained video and phone recordings used by the administration of President Mikheil Saakashvili to blackmail journalists, politicians, and activists. But getting rid of dirty laundry is not as easy as it seems.

Georgia has resumed wine exports to Russia for the first time since 2006, with a first batch of 30,000 bottles from the Dugladze winery crossing the Georgia-Russia border on June 15.

Azerbaijani opposition leader Rustam Ibragimbekov has met with U.S. State Department officials in Washington this week to seek support ahead of the Caucasian country's presidential election in October.

A Finnish firm says it has developed a new, lightweight technology that will allow elevators to carry passengers to a height of up to one kilometer in a single run -- twice the distance currently feasible.

The jailed mayor of Makhachkala, the capital of Russia’s troubled North Caucasus republic of Daghestan, has been hospitalized after reportedly attempting to kill himself in a Moscow detention center.