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If it is definitively determined that the Moscow atrocity was carried out by ISKP, it would be consistent with the rapid increase in the group's external operations activities as of late.

In the days since the mass killing at the Crocus City concert hall near Moscow, blameless Tajik migrants across Russia have been subjected to threats, verbal abuse and increased harassment from law enforcement.

The targeted individuals apparently included employees of the National Security Committee and the Defense Ministry.

Yerevan says Baku is seeking to escalate the situation on the border. Azerbaijan continues to demonize the EU monitors on the Armenian side.

Topographers and legal experts from the two countries this week reached a resolution on another 3.71 kilometers of the border.

In addition to the risk of the Ukraine War spreading to Georgian territory, the planned Russian naval base in Abkhazia could threaten Georgia's status as a global east-west connectivity hub.

Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said in remarks broadcast on Tajik state television that a frontier demarcation agreement would be signed in March.

Astana has been cultivating economic ties with Kabul since the group took power in 2021.

Talk is growing louder in Armenia about a possible break with the CSTO and the country declaring "non-bloc status."

The Azerbaijani president described the visit a "positive step." Elsewhere on the same day, he warned that arming Armenia could trigger another war.

Conversations have focused on key roads and access to remote settlements.

Azerbaijan is angry about France's sale of hardware and weapons to its rival Armenia. It's been quiet so far on Georgia's role in facilitating the transaction.

Armenia has broken a major taboo by forging defense ties with France and the U.S.

Vagif Khachatryan, a 68-year-old veteran of the First Karabakh War in the early 1990s, pleaded not guilty but was convicted of crimes including "genocide."

The Gaza war has further worsened relations between Baku's "brother" nation Turkey and another of its key strategic partners, Israel.

The victim, a veteran of the 2008 Georgia-Russia war, was reportedly visiting a church on the borderline.

Russian state TV aired an hour-long falsehood-laden program attacking the Armenian prime minister.

Armenia is increasingly keen on Western mediation while Azerbaijan prefers to see the issue settled with the participation of regional powers like Russia and Turkey.

An Uzbek government delegation is expected to travel to Afghanistan by the end of the year.

The Tajik government is described by the site as having created conditions ideal for the success of the Islamic State group.

Armenia doesn't trust Azerbaijan's recent actions and rhetoric indicating that it's deprioritizing its ambition for a corridor through Armenia to its exclave Nakhchivan.

At present, around one-third of the border remains undefined.

An opposition MP sees a Russian effort to extend the frontline in the Ukraine war to Georgia.

The two countries, whose relations have long been strained, are now working together on a transit corridor and discussing normalizing their relations.

The decision comes amid the mass exodus of Armenians from Karabakh and after the arrest by Azerbaijan of one of the region's most prominent former officials.