St.Petersburg foiled bombing: "Reports identified a bomb maker with an ethnic Russian name, and other participants from two mostly Muslim regions in the Caucasus Mountains in southern Russia. That suggests that most of the suspects are Russian citizens. Another suspect was described as a native of Tajikistan"

NATO wants to see positive shifts in Karabakh settlement – Getemuller

Azerbaijan recorded 112 shellings from the Armenian side

3 suspected militants were killed in counter-terror operation in Dagestan

Russia's 'withdrawal' from Syria has included just one of the (at minimum) four battalions of military police there.

What Saakashvili is doing is spitting in the face of the Georgian people and spitting in the face of the Ukrainian people, Putin says.

Azerbaijani Mindef: As a result of violation of the ceasefire regime by units of the armed forces of Armenia, a serviceman of the Armed Forces of Azerbaijan Salakhov Fizuli Suleyman oglu was killed

Armenia to annul protocols on normalization of relations with Turkey before spring 2018 - FM

Azerbaijan and Russia discuss military-technical cooperation

Russian military police return to Makhachkala, Dagestan from their posting in Syria

Tu-22M3 planes being redeployed to their bases as Syria mission is finished

Former party of @SaakashviliM in Georgia demands his release from pre-trial detention.

3 suspected militants were killed in counter-terror operation in Stavropol'

Monument to Russian "peacekeeper" was opened in occupied Abkhazia

Chechen Ombudsman Demands to Block "Destructive Resources" "Caucasian Knot" and "Kavkaz.Realii"

The Protocol of the 10th meeting of the Azerbaijan-Turkey High-Level Military Dialogue were signed

Human rights ombudsman Moskalkova continues to press for govt to open criminal case into Chechnya's gay purge

Rally in support of Saakashvili today in Tbilisi

US State Secretary Tillerson: Georgia is largest per capita contributor to Afghanistan; we strongly support Georgia's aspirations to become NATO member. We strongly support the open door policy. No third party should have anything to say about a country's pursuit of NATO membership

NATO is engaged in dialogue and cooperation with Georgia on BlackSea security plus on: energy security, explosive disposal, cyber, intel, secure communications - @jensstoltenberg

We remain concerned and call on Russia to end its recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia regions of Georgia and withdraw its forces from that territory - NATO Secretary General @jensstoltenberg

We are fully committed to providing Georgia with advice and tools it needs to advance toward eventual NATO membership - @jensstoltenberg

Foreign ministers will review the implementation of our support for Georgia: strengthening its defence institutions and assisting its path towards membership in NATO - @jensstoltenberg

Baku hosts the 10th meeting of the Azerbaijan-Turkey High-Level Military Dialogue

The Commission of Rostekhnadzor to find out the cause of a power outage in Chechnya, on 3 December. About 878 thousand residents were left without electricity due to a failure

Russia launched military drill in occupied Tskhinvali

NATO Secretary General: We will hold meeting of NATO-Georgia Commission. Georgia is one of Alliance's closest partners. We work together on many issues

On NATO - Georgia Commission, we will discuss areas for closer cooperation, such as Black Sea security - @jensstoltenberg

Russia further expands North Caucasian military police units for Syria: 150 North Ossetian soldiers to be sent to Syria in coming days

A crane has been set up at Aleppo's Great Mosque. Seems that Chechen-funded reconstruction effort is underway.