Nagorno-Karabakh’s Armenia-backed armed forces received 33 battle tanks and over 110 trucks and other vehicles in 2013 as part of an ongoing military buildup, according to their commander, General Movses Hakobian.
A retired army general who was the main opposition candidate in Nagorno-Karabakh’s last presidential election has reportedly discovered a makeshift bomb attached to his car in what law-enforcement authorities suspect was an attempt to assassinate him.
International mediators reportedly spoke of a real possibility of major progress in Armenian-Azerbaijani peace talks as they visited Nagorno-Karabakh on Wednesday.
The National Assembly overwhelmingly rejected on Wednesday an opposition bill that would obligate Armenia’s government to formally recognize Nagorno-Karabakh as an independent state.
Police in Yerevan made two brief arrests on Thursday in fresh scuffles with dozens of mostly young activists campaigning against a sharp rise in the cost of public transport planned by the municipal administration.
Bako Sahakian, the president of the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR), welcomed at the weekend Armenia’s controversial decision to join the a Russian-led customs union.
A leader of the ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) rejected on Tuesday the idea of placing Nagorno-Karabakh under Russian control which has allegedly been floated by a prominent pro-government intellectual.
Opposition lawmaker Zaruhi Postanjian has asked Chief of Armenian Police Vladimir Gasparian to ensure her and her family’s security in the wake of death threats issued by a senior government member affiliated with the ruling party.
An exiled former Azerbaijani military leader currently campaigning for the rights of an ethnic minority in Azerbaijan visited Nagorno-Karabakh on Thursday two decades after confronting Karabakh Armenian forces on the battlefield.
James Warlick, the U.S. co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group, met with Nagorno-Karabakh’s leaders in Stepanakert on Friday, ending a regional tour which Washington hopes will help to revive Armenian-Azerbaijani peace talks.
President Serzh Sarkisian branded Azerbaijan a “medieval khanate” ruled by dictators on Monday as he celebrated the 22nd anniversary of Nagorno-Karabakh’s declaration of independence from Baku.
The number of foreign tourists visiting Nagorno-Karabakh is continuing to increase rapidly after substantial growth recorded in recent years, authorities in the Armenian-populated territory said on Monday.
Nagorno-Karabakh’s Armenian-backed armed forces on Friday claimed to have acquired large quantities of heavy weapons and ammunition in the last two years.
Two ethnic Armenian residents of Nagorno-Karabakh received lengthy prison sentences on Tuesday as they were convicted of spying for Azerbaijan through the Internet.
Two young men have gone on trial in Nagorno-Karabakh on charges of collaborating with Azerbaijani intelligence through the Internet.
The head of an administrative district in western Germany ended on Friday a two-day visit to Nagorno-Karabakh which he hopes will lead to direct cooperation between the two entities.
International mediators entered Nagorno-Karabakh through the heavily militarized Armenian-Azerbaijani “line of contact” on Thursday after monitoring ceasefire there together with field representatives of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.
U.S., Russian and French mediators have visited Nagorno-Karabakh and Armenia and met with top government officials there in a fresh round of shuttle diplomacy aimed at kick-starting the Armenian-Azerbaijani peace process.
Armenia’s government is ready to consider “reasonable proposals” from opposition leader Raffi Hovannisian to defuse post-election tensions and carry out wide-ranging reforms in the country, a key political ally of President Serzh Sarkisian said on Wednesday.
The number of Armenian soldiers killed in skirmishes with Azerbaijani forces around Nagorno-Karabakh has drastically fallen this year despite increased ceasefire violations along the “line of contact,” a top military official in Stepanakert said on Wednesday.
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