The separatist leader of Georgia’s breakaway region of Abkhazia resigned on Tuesday after days of unrest, in which the ...

Opposition protesters in Georgia's breakaway province of Abkhazia and its separatist government appear to have reached an ...

Aslan Bzhania is quitting just days after crowds stormed government buildings over a controversial pro-Russia bill.

TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — Opposition protesters in Georgia's breakaway province of Abkhazia have refused to cede control of key government buildings that demonstrators stormed to protest new ...

Protesters in Abkhazia, a breakaway region of Georgia, stormed the parliament building, rejecting the president's resignation offer over a controversial land deal with Russia. They demand his ...

Russia recognized Abkhazia and another breakaway region, South Ossetia, as independent states in 2008 after it defeated Georgia in a five-day war. It maintains troop bases in both regions and ...

Protesters in Georgia's Russia-backed breakaway region of Abkhazia have declined to leave the parliament building which they stormed the previous day, a departure proposed by the region's ...

Some threw rocks at police, who responded with tear gas. Most of Abkhazia broke away from Georgia in fighting that ended in 1993, and Georgia lost control of the rest of the territory in the short ...