South Caucasus
The skirmishes have stirred concern about the stability of a late 2020 Moscow-negotiated armistice.
Jul 21, 2021
Skirmishes continued around the still undefined border, now more than eight months after Azerbaijan reversed three decades of humiliation by retaking long-occupied areas.
Jul 19, 2021
The unrest has obviously unnerved the EU so much that the President of the EU Council, Charles Michel, scheduled an unexpected visit to the region on July 17.
Jul 16, 2021
Jul 16, 2021
Jul 15, 2021
Baku said Shusha, Azerbaijan's "cultural capital" and a historic mountainside city known for producing writers and scholars, and the crown jewel recovered by Azerbaijan after the years of Armenian occupation, came under attack.
Jul 15, 2021
Though an armistice is largely holding, border disputes remain common, and a final peace between Azerbaijan and Armenia is elusive.
Jul 12, 2021
In this personal story, Aybaniz Ismayilova describes her hometown of Minjivan in the Zangelan region of Azerbaijan – a town now cheering its de-occupation, yet a deeply wounded one destroyed during 27 years of occupation.
Jul 8, 2021
The maps show another 92,000 hidden anti-tank and anti-personnel mines in the former front-line Fizuli and Zangelan districts. Armenia occupied those districts and all or parts of seven others of Azerbaijan for 25-30 years.
Jul 5, 2021
Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told reporters after a meeting with his Turkish counterpart Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu in Antalya, Turkey, that the two major powers had a common position.
Jul 2, 2021