They fettered his mouth with chains, And tied his hands to the rock of the dead. They said: You're a murderer. They took his food, his clothes and his banners, And threw him into the well of the dead. They said: You're a thief. They threw him out of every port, And took away his young beloved. And then they said: You're a refugee. With poems from the 1960s such as this, Mahmoud Darwish, who has di
As the bloody military mismatch between Russia and Georgia unfolded over the past three days, even the main players were surprised by how quickly small border skirmishes slipped into a conflict that threatened the Georgian government and perhaps the country itself. Several American and Georgian officials said that unlike when Russia invaded Afghanistan in 1979, a move in which Soviet forces were m
The flare-up of major hostilities between Russia and Georgia has been dubbed by some "the pipeline war". The landlocked Caspian sea's huge oil reserves are a factor, especially since Georgia became a key transit country for oil to travel from Baku in Azerbaijan to the Turkish port of Ceyhan on the Mediterranean. The pipeline, which was completed in May 2006, is the second longest in the world. Alt
Separatist rebels and Russian forces launch attack on Georgian stronghold in Black Sea territory The conflict in the Caucasus today spread to Georgia's second breakaway province of Abkhazia, where separatist rebels and the Russian air force launched an all-out attack on Georgian forces. Abkhazia's pro-Moscow separatist leader Sergei Bagapsh said his troops had launched a major "military operation"
Russian ground forces on Sunday passed a car with a South Ossetian license plate near the town of Dzhava in South Ossetia.Credit...Musa Sadulayev/Associated Press This article was reported by Andrew E. Kramer, Anne Barnard and C. J. Chivers, and written by Ms. Barnard. TBILISI, Georgia — Russia expanded its attacks on Georgia on Sunday, moving tanks and troops through the separatist enclave of Sou
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