Lithuania announced this week it had blocked and fortified a bridge over the Nieman River linking it to the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, the latest in a series of escalations in the Baltic Sea ...

The exclaves dotted around the Fergana Valley, encircled by the territory of another country, are notoriously cut off, especially when tensions flare and authorities close borders. So it will have ...

Turkey warned on Saturday it would not hesitate to strike back at Islamic State jihadists if they attacked Turkish troops stationed at Ankara's exclave inside Syria. "We will absolutely not hesitate ...

A former U.S. general has warned against complacency that Sweden's membership of NATO had stifled the threat posed by Russia to the West. On Monday, Hungary's parliament ratified Sweden's accession to ...

Central Asia's impoverished and densely populated Ferghana Valley usually grabs the headlines when violence explodes in one of its cities, such as Osh in 2010 or Andijon in 2005. But some of ...

Tensions are on the rise in a gorgeous Pacific Northwest coastal enclave where locals have to drive through Canada to reach the US. Residents in Port Roberts, Washington have been caught in the ...