The 19th-century exile of Circassians from their Black Sea homeland remains a painful tragedy, said Turkey’s president on Friday. "On the 157th anniversary of the deportation of our Circassian ...

When Russia extended its empire in the Caucasus region in the late 19th century, its Muslim Circassian population was forced to migrate to areas in the Ottoman Empire, and many settled in what is now ...

Beginning Friday night, hundreds of millions of people will tune in to the Winter Olympics, which Russia hopes will prove to the world that the country has re-emerged as a world power after its long, ...

A new UN World Tourism Organization title is set to bring tourists to the small Lower Galilee village, but residents want people to know who they really are – and not throw garbage in their streets.

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 ...

It has been 158 years since the Russian Empire exiled the Circassians from the Caucasus region, regarded as strategically important. In an effort to seize the northern Caucasus as part of its goal of ...

Ambassador Akbar Ahmed is currently the Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies at American University in Washington. Frankie Martin, an Ibn Khaldun Chair Research Fellow at American University's School ...

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Circassians across the world, including in Israel, have watched the opening of the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, with disgust. Here, Circassians protest in Istanbul, Feb. 2, 2014. Reuters/Osman ...

“They tried to forget us, as if we never even lived there,” says Circassian architect Abdullah Makhmudovic Berisov. Now 67 years old, Berisov speaks about the pain he feels when thinking of the 2014 ...