World News

Amnesty calls for probe into alleged Nagorno-Karabakh war crimes

A fierce war between the Azeri army and Armenian separatists supported by Yerevan broke out at the end of September.

10 December 2020

Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan summons ambassador over France's Nagorno-Karabakh vote

France's Senate voted on Wednesday to recognise the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh as an independent country. The vote is largely symbolic.

26 November 2020

World News

Calculating the human cost of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict

A six-week war in Nagorno-Karabakh resulted in hundreds, if not thousands, of deaths. Some are still waiting for news of their missing relatives.

20 November 2020

World News

Azerbaijan takes over first district from Nagorno-Karabakh peace deal

After the district of Aghdam, Kalbajar is set to be handed over on the November 25 and Lachin on December 1.

20 November 2020

Armenia

Nagorno-Karabakh truce: Residents face an uncertain future

Nagorno-Karabakh truce: Residents face an uncertain future

18 November 2020

World News

Calls mount on Armenian prime minister Nikol Pashinyan to resign

The conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the Nagorno-Karabakh region lasted for six weeks and killed thousands of people. Last week it ended with a peace-agreement brokered by Russia. Since then Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has been the main focus of protests.

16 November 2020

Armenia

Azerbaijan agrees to extend deadline for Armenian forces to leave

Azerbaijan agrees to give Armenian forces more time to leave part of territory ceded in a Russian-brokered ceasefire deal

15 November 2020

Azerbaijan

Ethnic Armenians burn own homes rather than hand them to Azerbaijan

Some residents in Nagorno-Karabakh have set fire to their own homes rather than hand them over to Azerbaijan under a ceasefire deal with Armenia.

14 November 2020

Russia

Russian Foreign Minister says drones will be used to monitor truce

Russia and Turkey sign a deal on creating a joint centre for monitoring the Nagorno-Karabakh ceasefire.

12 November 2020

Armenia

Armenian PM defends Nagorno-Karabakh truce amid protests in Yerevan

Nikol Pashinian says other towns in the region could have been seized by Azerbaijan if he had not accepted the Russian-brokered agreement

11 November 2020

World News

Hundreds of Armenian protesters decry new Nagorno-Karabakh deal

Soon after the announcement, thousands of people streamed to the main square in the Armenian capital of Yerevan to protest the agreement, many shouting “We won't give up our land!” Some of them broke into the main government building, saying they were searching for Pashinian.

10 November 2020

Armenia

Two soldiers die after Russian helicopter 'shot down in Armenia'

Russia said Monday that one of its military helicopters was shot down in Armenia, near the border with Azerbaijan, killing two servicemen.

9 November 2020

World News

Azerbaijan claims it has seized key city in Nagorno-Karabakh

In a televised address to the nation, Azeri President Ilham Aliyev said “Shusha is ours” but Armenia says that fighting in and around Shusha/Shushi was continuing.

8 November 2020

World News

Azerbaijani forces recapture strategic dam in Nagorno-Karabakh

The farmers claim that when Armenians took control of the dam in 1992, they diverted the water away from them.

27 October 2020

World News

Nagorno-Karabakh: New ceasefire struck but both sides allege breaches

Armenia and Azerbaijan agreed to a third attempt to establish a ceasefire after four weeks of hostilities, but immediately accused each other of breaching it.

26 October 2020

Azerbaijan

Flare-up rages on over Nagorno-Karabakh despite US-hosted peace talks

As Armenian and Azerbaijani diplomats arrived in the US for peace talks, fighting continued over Nagorno-Karabakh.

25 October 2020

World News

Nagorno-Karabakh: Armenia and Azerbaijan accused of breaking ceasefire

The ceasefire, which was set to start at midnight on Saturday, came after Armenia and Azerbaijan accused each other of attacking residential areas.

18 October 2020

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Azerbaijani families grieve sons killed in Nagorno-Karabakh

Family members grieve at the grave of an Azerbaijani soldier killed in Nagorno-Karabakh.

15 October 2020

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Armenians receive guns to defend town badly hit by shelling

People in Martuni, Armenia have been issued guns to defend their town as skirmishes between Armenia and Azerbaijan continue.

15 October 2020

Azerbaijan

Civilians pay the price as Nagorno-Karabakh fighting continues

Homes are being destroyed as skirmishes continue between Azerbaijani and Armenian forces in the Nagorno-Karabach region.

13 October 2020