Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has again described much of modern-day Armenia as “western Azerbaijan” and said Yerevan must ensure the safe return of ethnic Azerbaijanis who had fled it in the late 1980s.
An Armenian military training plane crashed on Friday, killing its two pilots on board.
Dozens of relatives of Nagorno-Karabakh soldiers killed in Azerbaijan’s September 2023 offensive rallied in Yerevan on Thursday to urge the Armenian government to help rebury them in Armenia.
Twenty-seven supporters of Archbishop Bagrat Galstanian were set free on Monday three days after being arrested during an antigovernment demonstration in Yerevan that ended in scuffles with riot police.
Several settlements in Armenia’s northern Lori province remained cut off from the outside world on Monday more than 24 hours after the country’s worst flooding in decades that killed four people and caused extensive damage to local infrastructure.
Exiled political leaders of Nagorno-Karabakh have rejected as inadequate the Armenian government’s new plan to help Karabakh refugees obtain permanent housing in Armenia.
India and Armenia have held what they called “first defense consultations” highlighting their growing military ties.
Armenia still hopes to receive modest military assistance from the European Union, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian said on Tuesday during a visit to Denmark.
At least 171 people demanding Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s resignation were detained on Monday as they again blocked streets in Yerevan, heeding appeals from Archbishop Bagrat Galstanian, the leader of ongoing antigovernment protests there.
Thousands of people demanding Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s resignation again rallied in Yerevan on Friday on the second day of demonstrations led by Archbishop Bagrat Galstanian and backed by virtually all Armenian opposition groups.
Armenia's leading anti-corruption watchdog and three local human rights groups on Friday denounced the government's decision to cede contentious border areas to Azerbaijan, saying that it is illegal and dangerous for residents of nearby Armenian villages.
Police in Armenia detained early on Thursday dozens of people in a border village in the northern Tavush province trying to prevent the controversial handover of adjacent border areas to Azerbaijan.
Political allies Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian are stepping up scathing personal attacks on a senior clergyman leading nearly two-week protests in Armenia’s northern Tavush province against territorial concessions to Azerbaijan made by the government.
The pro-government majority in the Armenian parliament rejected on Tuesday an opposition initiative to debate Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s territorial concessions to Azerbaijan that have sparked angry protests across Armenia.
A company importing and selling mobile phones has become Armenia’s number one corporate taxpayer this year in what appears to be a result of Western economic sanctions against Russia.
Marija Pejcinovic Buric, the Secretary General of the Council of Europe, pledged continued support of her organization to Armenia as she visited Yerevan on Monday.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has again accused Russia of not honoring its security commitments to Armenia ahead of his trilateral meeting with top U.S. and European Union officials criticized by Moscow.
The Armenian government has blocked the broadcasts to Armenia of political talk shows aired by one of Russia’s two main state TV channels following their pro-Kremlin host Vladimir Solovyov’s repeated criticism of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s policies.
Hundreds of refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh demonstrated in Yerevan on Wednesday to demand that Armenia’s government expand its aid programs for them and seek international security guarantees for their return to their homeland.
The Armenian parliament approved on Wednesday the government’s decision to essentially grant diplomatic immunity to members of a monitoring mission launched by the European Union along Armenia’s border with Azerbaijan a year ago.
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