Saturday, January 3, 2026

Georgia's Security Council to meet to discuss video threat

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Georgia’s president Mikheil Saakashvili. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–President Mikheil Saakashvili has called Georgia’s National Security Council together for another session in the beginning of this week to discuss a video threat uploaded on Youtube.

The video contains threats against Georgian soldiers in Afghanistan

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Thousands attend funeral of dead Georgian soldiers

 

Funeral of the seven dead soldiers was held at Sameba on Sunday (DF Watch photo)
Funeral of the seven dead soldiers was held at Sameba on Sunday (DF Watch photo)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Sunday, thousands of people attended the funeral of the seven soldiers who died in Afghanistan.

Patriarch Ilia II conducted the funeral which took place at Sameba Cathedral in Tbilisi. The prime minister and almost the entire government were present during the service

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Demonstration in Tbilisi to demand withdrawal from Afghanistan

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The demonstrators demanded that Georgia withdraws its troops from Afghanistan. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Students rallied in front of the old parliament building in Tbilisi Friday to demand the withdrawal of Georgian troops from Afghanistan.

The protest came after seven Georgian soldiers died in a suicide attack in Helmand province on Thursday.

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200 locals gathered to prevent Friday prayers

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200 locals in Samtatskharo gathered outside the prayer house, determined to prevent Friday prayers. (Georgian Public Broadcaster.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Friday prayers were disrupted by locals yesterday in a village in eastern Georgia.

About 200 locals had gathered in the village Samtatskharo in the Kakheti region in order to prevent Muslims from praying in a house that has been purchased for this

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Georgia commemmorated fallen soldiers

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Defense Minister Irakli Alasania visiting one of the wounded soldiers. (Ministry of Defense.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Friday, Georgia commemorated the seven soldiers who died in a suicide attack in Afghanistan the day before.

The soldiers were serving in the 42nd infantry brigade at Base Lezernik in Helmand Province.

“We took the bodies of our seven heroes

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Diplomats in Georgia visit border area

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Razor wire like this is being put up through villages on the de facto border. (Radio Liberty.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–The Interior Ministry in Georgia Friday organized a trip for a few dozen foreign diplomats to villages close to the Russian-controlled breakaway region South Ossetia, where Russian border guards last week moved the border 300 meters into

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