An Iranian parliamentary body proposes a set of measures meant to maintain the country’s role in the South Caucasus, saying an “effective presence” in the volatile region serves the Islamic Republic’s interests and national security.

On an official visit to neighboring Iraq, President Rouhani of Iran warns that the United States is transferring terrorists to Central Asia and the Caucasus after their defeats in Iraq and Syria.

The leopards, a female named Volna and a male named Elbrus, became the latest big cats to be released in the region.

A man in Russia's southern province of Dagestan shot into a crowd of people leaving a church, killing five and injuring at least five others.

The Iranian foreign minister is on a regional tour of the Caucasus and Central Asia.

Russia’s FSB says the suspected Daesh-linked terrorists were planning terror attacks around Moscow.

The stadium where Pope Francis delivered the mass in Georgia was largely empty.