Pankisi (Georgian: პანკისი) or the Pankisi Gorge (Georgian: პანკისის ხეობა, Pankisis Kheoba) is a valley region in Georgia, in the upper reaches of River...

The Pankisi Gorge crisis was a spillover of the Second Chechen War, with military dimension in Georgia early in the 2000s. Georgia was pressured by Russia...

are a Chechen sub-ethnic group in Georgia. They primarily live in the Pankisi Gorge, in the eastern Georgian region of Kakheti, where there are approximately...

its counter-terrorism capabilities and addressed the situation in the Pankisi Gorge. The program was planned to be a 20-month long, $64 million effort...

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Chechens themselves, due to Chechen support for Ingush against Ossetians. Pankisi Gorge is home to a large Chechen population in Georgia, and the region...

crisis Operation Enduring Freedom Afghanistan Philippines Horn of Africa Pankisi Gorge Trans Sahara Caribbean and Central America Iraq War Pakistan-United...

Sunni Muslims in Adjara, Chechen sub-ethnic group of Sunni Kists in the Pankisi Gorge, and Laz-speaking Sunni Muslims as well as Sunni Meskhetian Turks...

1990s. In 2002 Georgia carried out a special operation in the infamous Pankisi Gorge known for its supposed hosting of militant groups and criminals elements...

combating "criminal elements" as well as alleged Arab mujahideen activity in Pankisi Gorge as part of the War on Terrorism. Without resistance, Georgian troops...

1 kidnapper killed. Other 28 kidnappers captured. 2001–2005 Pankisi Gorge crisis Pankisi Gorge, Kakheti, Georgia Mixed, Al-Qaeda and Chechen rebels led...

Northeast Caucasian → Nakh → Chechen Russia (Chechnya, Aukh), Georgia (Pankisi) Kists, Chechen Kurds, Aukhs, with significant populations in Austria,...

neighbouring Kists – also a Nakh-speaking people who live in the nearby Pankisi Gorge. Part of the community still retains its own Bats language ("batsbur...

crisis took shape in 1999 with the government effectively losing control of Pankisi region as a result of a spillover of the war in Chechnya. The Chechen refugees...

1986. His mother was a Kist—an ethnic Chechen subgroup from Georgia's Pankisi Gorge—of the Mastoy clan. His father, Teimuraz Batirashvili was an ethnic...

witnessed Khattab being killed in an ambush in Duisi, a village in the Pankisi Gorge of Georgia on 28 April 2002. "Khattabka" (хаттабка) is now a popular...

Valley, which was a victory. After that, Zezva fortified himself in the Pankisi fortress. However, he was later captured for treason and imprisoned in...

Enduring Freedom – Horn of Africa (OEF-HOA) Operation Enduring Freedom – Pankisi Gorge Operation Enduring Freedom – Trans Sahara (OEF-TS; see also Insurgency...

Counter-Terrorism Department carried out a double operation in Tbilisi and the Pankisi Gorge in northeast Georgia, inhabited by the ethnic Kists, a Chechen subgroup...

Vladimir Putin had accused Georgia of harboring the Chechen militants in the Pankisi Gorge. He also threatened to have Russian military deal with the rebels...

2002). "Moscow, Washington and Tbilisi Wrestle With Instability in the Pankisi". EurasiaNet. Archived from the original on 20 August 2020. Retrieved 20...

of Sultan Khangoshvili on 15 August 1979, in the Duisi village of the Pankisi Gorge, a region of Georgia home to a large ethnic Chechen population known...

national, he is also a Kist, a Chechen subethnos living mostly in the Pankisi Gorge. According to Russian sources, Margoshvili was killed in Syria by...

claims that some 700 Chechen fighters had spent that winter in Georgia's Pankisi Gorge. He further claimed that Russian General Gennady Shpigun, abducted...

rescue". In 2001, Gelayev decided to rebuild his forces in the remote Pankisi Gorge across the Georgian border. There, Gelayev had built up a significant...

to the country no less than Chechen terrorists, who feel at ease in the Pankisi Gorge. During the period leading up to Georgian independence in 1991, as...

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other theories suggest that they may be local Islamist militants from the Pankisi Gorge. To this day, there is no definitive answer to the paramilitary group's...

Municipality. It's situated on the left side of Alazani, close to the Pankisi Gorge. The town is situated at 567m. In 1966, it received the status of...

name is mostly used to refer to the Chechens who compactly live in the Pankisi Gorge of Georgia. In 1795, when describing the peoples inhabiting Russia...