The Latest Breaking News from Azerbaijan

Nagorno-Karabakh: Azerbaijan's energy wealth gives it de facto impunity for ethnic cleansing

A United Nations mission finally arrived in Nagorno-Karabakh on October 1 to find its towns and villages almost completely deserted. Two weeks after Azerbaijan launched an all-out military assault on the disputed territory in the south Caucasus, the Armenian government has said there are now almost no ethnic Armenians left…

The Conversation · Oct 6, 2023

EU seeks new talks on Nagorno-Karabakh, boosts aid to Armenia

European Council President Charles Michel says dialogue and diplomacy needed to resolve crisis.

Al Jazeera · Oct 5, 2023

Not just Ukraine: How does Europe prevent bloodshed at its doorstep?

Europe has issues at its doorstep and Ukraine is only one of them. Azerbaijan overran Nagorno-Karabakh after promising not to invade during the European Union's embryonic mediation effort. Not only was that promise broken, but the winner is refusing a meeting with the loser.

France 24 · Oct 5, 2023

Azerbaijan’s president snubs EU-hosted talks on Nagorno-Karabakh

Ilham Aliyev will not attend meeting with Armenian PM amid anger over French decision to supply military aid to Yerevan

The Guardian - UK · Oct 4, 2023

Paris agrees to deliver military equipment to Armenia

On a visit to Armenia, French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna said Paris had agreed to deliver military equipment to Yerevan. Meanwhile, Armenia's parliament voted to join the International Criminal Court, to the dismay of Russia.

Radio France Internationale · Oct 4, 2023

Who can Armenia count on? Yerevan angers Moscow and looks West

French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna is in Armenia to examine the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh, an enclave in Azerbaijan which until two weeks ago had a sizeable ethnic Armenian population. But now the enclave is almost empty, as more than 100,000 of its former residents have crossed the border and fled…

France 24 · Oct 3, 2023

Azerbaijan arrests several former top separatist leaders of Nagorno-Karabakh

Azerbaijani authorities have arrested several former separatist leaders of Nagorno-Karabakh after reclaiming control of the Armenian-populated breakaway region in a lightning military operation last month

The Independent UK · Oct 3, 2023

Hundreds of most vulnerable left in Nagorno-Karabakh after mass exodus

Many of those left behind are the sick and elderly, with humanitarian groups trying to seek them out to provide help. Armenia is also struggling to house and support the 100,000 people who have fled into the country

The Independent UK · Oct 3, 2023

Death of the Armenian dream in Nagorno-Karabakh was predictable but not inevitable

Thirty-five years ago, more than 100,000 Armenian protesters took to the streets to convince Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev that Nagorno-Karabakh – an ethnically Armenian enclave stuck geographically in the neighboring republic of Soviet Azerbaijan – ought to be joined to Armenia.

The Conversation · Oct 3, 2023

Armenia parliament defies Russia by voting to join international criminal court

It will mean Armenia must arrest Vladimir Putin if he sets foot in the country

Evening Standard · Oct 3, 2023