As international tensions rise over Russia's involvement in the Syrian crisis, Foreign Policy's Joshua Kucera takes a look at another security... Joshua Kucera is a Washington-based freelance writer.

Earlier this month, representatives of the countries that surround the Caspian Sea met in Moscow to discuss divvying up its ample natural resources. The meeting broke up with all sides praising their ...

Russia has been strengthening its Caspian Flotilla, adding anti-ship missile units on the southern part of its border, Nezavisimaya Gazeta reports. It's another sign that the Caspian arms race is ...

The waters of the Caspian Sea appear deceptively calm. But this sea route – which provides a direct path between Iran and Russia – is increasingly busy with cargo traffic, including suspected weapons ...

Russian ships are ferrying large quantities of Iranian artillery shells and other ammunition across the Caspian Sea to resupply troops fighting in Ukraine, Middle East officials said, posing a growing ...

Turkmenistan will hold its first-ever naval exercises in the Caspian Sea in early September, President Gurbanguly Berdimukhammedov announced. The exercises will be called Khazar-2012 ("Khazar" being ...

Joshua Kucera is a Washington-based freelance writer. He blogs at The Bug Pit. This reporting was made possible by a grant from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. The Caspian Sea, once a ...