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Baku’s ambitions center on the proposed Zangezur Corridor, a transit route through Armenia connecting Azerbaijan to its Nakhchivan exclave and Turkey. This corridor, under prospective Ankara-Baku ...
Russia is reportedly increasing its military presence in Armenia — and Ukraine’s intelligence agency has released a leaked ...
In my previous article for Asbarez, titled "Preventing a Modern Day Alexandropol: Armenia's Quest for Common Ground," I ...
A brawl erupted in Armenia’s National Assembly involving an opposition lawmaker who later was stripped of his parliamentary ...
Armenia also last year returned to Azerbaijan four border villages it had seized decades earlier. Nearly all ethnic Armenians – more than 100,000 people – fled Karabakh after its takeover by Baku.
Peace talks began after Azerbaijan retook Karabakh by force in September 2023, prompting almost all of the territory's 100,000 Armenians to flee to Armenia. Most now live in Armenia as refugees.
Armenia accepted Azerbaijan’s proposals on “the two unresolved articles” of the draft agreement, the Armenian foreign ministry statement detailed. “One of the two articles concerns the ...
Armenia and Azerbaijan had already fought two wars over Nagorno-Karabakh since the collapse of the Soviet Union, and ceasefire agreements between them had proven brittle. The conflict flared again ...
Armenia’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Thursday that a draft peace agreement with Azerbaijan had been finalised from its side. “The peace agreement is ready for signing.
Azerbaijan has long demanded access to, and control of, this route. The natural corridor runs through Armenia’s Syunik region (in Azerbaijani “ Zangezur ”, hence the Zangezur corridor).
The next election in Armenia is scheduled for June 2026, but informal campaigning is likely to begin by mid-2025, just months away. This will likely push Pashinyan toward a more rigid political stance ...
Experts in Armenia and Azerbaijan have worked to distinguish boundaries and have placed the first border marker as the nations strive for a peace treaty after a six-week war in 2020.