BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Georgia’s soldiers in Iraq want to join the fight at home as soon as possible and hope their experience in the U.S.-led force will prove valuable as conflict deepens in their homeland, their commander said on Friday.

GORI, Georgia (Reuters) – A Russian warplane dropped a bomb on an apartment block in the Georgian town of Gori on Saturday, killing at least 5 people, a Reuters reporter said.

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s military on Saturday said army units had arrived overnight in South Ossetia to bolster troops acting as peacekeepers and announced the imminent arrival of additional reinforcements, Russian news agencies reported.