A shooting erupted between border forces of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan on Thursday, the Kyrgyz border service said, adding that the Tajik side used mortars and grenade launchers. Earlier in the day, Bishkek said that forces were put on alert over “tensions” at the border over the Tajik side unilaterally blocking ...
Moscow has begun studying highly-anticipated responses from the United States and NATO to Russia’s sweeping security demands. In December, after building up troops at the Ukraine border, Russia called on NATO to pull back its forces and weapons from Eastern Europe and permanently block Ukraine, a former Soviet state, from ...
