Eurasia Press & News

OTTAWA (AFP) — Canada’s parliament voted on Thursday to extend its 2,500-strong troop deployment in volatile southern Afghanistan to 2011, as long as NATO allies back them up.

NATO urged Russia on Wednesday to tone down its “fiery rhetoric” after repeated Moscow attacks on the growing influence of the military alliance and US plans to base parts of a missile shield in Europe.

Ex-Soviet Moldova wants major powers to sign a declaration guaranteeing its neutrality, its president said, a step that could ease the way for a peace deal over its breakway Transdniestria region.

A 42-year-old woman, who police said made “threatening gestures with a knife”, was shot Tuesday by a Henderson officer and later died at a local hospital, according to a police report.

Kavkaz Center’s editorial staff received an e-mail containing a statement signed by Huzeifa, a deputy of the Amir of the Jamaat Kataib al-Hawl (Wilayah Iriston, the Emirate of Caucasus). KC is publishing the statement, which says that the operation aimed at eliminating Mark Metsayev, the ringleader of the “organized crime …

Azerbaijani and ethnic Armenian forces exchanged more gunfire near the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh over the weekend, killing two civilians and at least two soldiers, officials said Monday.

The press service of Amir of the Caucasus Emirate and Wekalat of CE abroad aired a formal notice and notification for the press. Kavkaz Center publishes the mentioned documents according to the text on the official website of Wekalat of CE – GeneralVekalat.org.

A ringleader of kafir gang of UBOP (Department for Combating Organized Crime) Mark Metsayev has been eliminated in the capital of Wilayah of Iriston (Ossetia) of the Caucasus Emirate. Some details of operation of eliminating of senior kafir.

Azerbaijan and Armenia accused each other on Wednesday of triggering an exchange of gunfire in disputed Nagorno-Karabakh that killed up to 16 people, one of the biggest such clashes in several years.

A pro-Russian breakaway region in the Caucasus mountains said on Wednesday it had asked the world community to recognize its independence from Georgia following the West’s support for Kosovo’s secession.