The Ossetian village of Dnenisi is just a few miles from Tskhinvali, further along the border with Georgia proper.
The organisation has suspended work in Bangassou, a city of about 25,000 people in the south-east, and halted a project in Zemio, further along the border with the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
But they remain confined to the tribal belt, further north along the border.
A further advance along the border by the Syrian Kurds might lead Ankara to consider direct military intervention.
Shebaa, a town of 4,000 inhabitants further east along the border, sits under the watchful gaze of a different Israeli border observation post.
The Gaza Health Ministry reported that at around the same time, Israeli machine-gun fire wounded six Palestinians, two of them children, in a residential neighborhood east of Khan Younis, further south along the border.
He said economic reform would be his top priority, but news of a coup in nuclear-armed Pakistan brought worries of further conflict along the border in Kashmir.See article: How India votedAustralian peacekeepers in East Timor shot dead an Indonesian policeman and wounded others during a skirmish along the ill-marked border with neighbouring West Timor.
Further north along the border, crouching among bushes along the banks of the river, are two young Liberian men in filthy clothes and flip-flops who describe their nine-day stint with the New Forces, where they say they were told to kill "anyone and everyone".
Bertil Lintner, a specialist on Myanmar's ethnic groups, said China feared an influx of refugees and further damage to trade along the border.
Further on, the border goes to the north along the Volga River.
Ukraine's president Petro Poroshenko made a surprise visit on Monday to the southern port city of Mariupol, which has come under heavy artillery fire, after separatist fighters allegedly backed by Russian support took the town of Novoazovsk, further along the coast and near the border with Russia, a fortnight ago.
