On a sunny afternoon, Shina Shabso was busy making traditional cheese pastries for a wedding on Israel's border with Lebanon, ...

Living in two northern villages, Israel's estimated 5,000 Circassians - Sunni Muslims who serve in the IDF - hope to preserve their community while contending with Hezbollah attacks ...

In a twist of historical irony, Vladimir Putin’s aggressive campaign in Ukraine has cast a renewed and intense global spotlight on Russia’s often suppressed past, particularly its legacy of imperial ...

BOLSHOI KICHMAI, Russia (AP) — While Vladimir Putin and rich Olympic sponsors watch the Winter Games in gleaming arenas, boys in nearby Bolshoi Kichmai herd their goats by tying them to rickety ...

Political parties have made statements about the genocide of Circassian people who were exiled from their homeland following the occupation of the Tsarist Russia 157 years ago and were subjected to ...

The head of the executed man thought, saw, suffered. And I saw what he saw, understood what he thought, and felt what he suffered. How long did it last? Three minutes, they told me. The executed man ...

epa04052150 Members of a Circassian ethnic group shout slogans during a protest against the Olympic Winter Games 2014 in front of the Russian Consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, 02 February 2014. The ...

Circassian in Turkey marched to the Russian Consulate building and asked for the recognition of the Circassian Genocide occurred 148 years ago on May 21, 1864. "Hundreds of Circassians were massacred ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Last week, Maykop was deserted as most people hid from the freezing rain pelting this quiet town in southern ...

Sochi port: gateway to the Russian riviera, or a coffin full of painful memories (pic: jaunted.com) Historic Circassia is today divided between several regions of the Russian Federation, but nobody ...