[ad_1] Azerbaijan on Monday said Armenia tried to carry out reconnaissance flights over the country’s northwestern Tovuz district. A statement by the Defense Ministry said Armenian forces tried to conduct the flight near the settlement of Esrik using a quadcopter. “The unmanned aerial vehicle detected as a result of the vigilance of our units was…
[ad_1] Azerbaijan on Sunday said that Armenia opened fire at its military positions in the Nakhchivan Autonomous Region. A statement by the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry said that the Armenian military opened fire on positions near the exclave’s Heydarabad settlement at 9:40 p.m. (1740GMT) on Saturday. The statement gave no further information. Relations between Azerbaijan and…
[ad_1] Armenia and Azerbaijan have been able to agree on the basic principles for a peace treaty but are still “speaking different diplomatic languages”, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said on Saturday, according to Russia’s TASS news agency. The two countries have been at odds for decades, most notably over the breakaway Azerbaijani region of…
[ad_1] Armenia said on Wednesday that nearly half of Nagorno-Karabakh’s population has fled the enclave since Azerbaijan crushed the rebels’ decades-long fight for an independent state last week. Yerevan’s attempts to absorb the sea of homeless and hungry ethnic Armenians come with officials still trying to identify the whereabouts of more than 100 people reported…
[ad_1] Tens of thousands of ethnic Armenians are likely to flee Nagorno-Karabakh and Armenia says it is prepared to take them in after Azerbaijan’s military victory last week in a conflict dating to the fall of the Soviet Union. About 120,000 civilians in the region in the South Caucasus will leave for Armenia because they…
[ad_1] Karabakh separatist militants were expected to lay down their arms on the second day under an agreement reached with the Azerbaijan government following its anti-terror operation. According to internatonal media reports, Moscow confirmed that the militants had surrendered the first weapons on Friday and the process is expected to continue through the weekend, with…
[ad_1] Azerbaijan said on Wednesday it had halted military action in its breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh after Armenian separatist forces there agreed to a ceasefire whose terms signalled the area would return to Baku’s control. Under the agreement, confirmed by both sides and effective from 1pm (0900 GMT) on Wednesday, separatist forces will disband and…
[ad_1] Azerbaijan launched “local anti-terrorist activities” in Karabakh to restore constitutional order by disarming and forcing the withdrawal of Armenian military formations after six Azerbaijani citizens were killed in separate mine blasts in the breakaway region. Baku blamed Armenian separatists for the death of the four Azerbaijani police officers and two civilians. “Anti-terrorist operations in…
[ad_1] The situation in the region is still tense. Despite Azerbaijan’s desire for peace and stability in the region, the Armenian authorities and the Karabakh separatists, including their patrons around the world, are doing everything they can to increase tensions. Despite its heavy defeat in the Second Karabakh War, Armenia continues its provocations. Armenian Prime…
[ad_1] Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan condemned the attack on the employees of AZTV, the official state television of Azerbaijan, in France. In a tweet, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan stated, “We strongly condemn the attack on Azerbaijani journalists of AzTV in France.” “We expect that this heinous attack against journalists will…
