Citing reported security threats from Syrian rebels, Armenia’s national airline suspended on Monday its regular flights from Yerevan to Aleppo that have enabled hundreds of ethnic Armenians to flee Syria in recent weeks.
Nine Syrian nationals remained stranded at Yerevan’s Zvartnots airport for a third day on Wednesday after being refused Armenian visas on the grounds that they failed to prove their ethnic Armenian origin.
Syrian government troops have regained control of the main Armenian-populated districts in Syria’s largest city of Aleppo, a senior Armenian government official said late on Tuesday.
Syrian rebels have seized the main Armenian-populated districts in Syria’s largest city of Aleppo after weeks of heavy fighting with government forces, a diplomatic source in Yerevan claimed on Tuesday.
Fundraising for Syria’s endangered Armenian community organized by a pan-Armenian charity headquartered in Yerevan has gotten off to a slow start, with only about $50,000 in donations received so far.
Syrian nationals of Armenian descent seeking to become Armenia’s citizens can expect to receive their new passports within up to seven months, immigration authorities in Yerevan said on Friday.
A second group of ethnic Armenian children from Syria arrived in Armenia on Tuesday to spend their holidays at a local summer camp as part of a special program launched by the authorities in Yerevan.
The first group of more than 100 ethnic Armenian children from crisis-hit Syria were flown to Armenia on Thursday for summer holidays organized by the Armenian government.
The Armavia airline said on Wednesday that it will carry out several additional flights to Syria this month to bring hundreds of Syrian children of Armenian descent to Armenia as part of a government program.
Armenia’s Armavia airline said that it still has no plans to cancel regular flights to Aleppo despite intensifying fighting there that left at least one ethnic Armenian resident of the besieged Syrian city dead on Tuesday.
Armenia has temporarily moved its consulate-general in Aleppo to a safer location in Syria’s largest city after more than a week of fierce fighting between Syrian government troops and rebels, official Yerevan announced over the weekend.
About 50 more ethnic Armenians arrived in Yerevan late on Thursday on the first of additional flights to and from Syria’s battleground city of Aleppo that was carried out by the Armavia national airline.
Armenia’s national airline has continued its weekly flights to Aleppo, enabling more Syrians of Armenian descent to flee the epicenter of fierce fighting between Syria’s government troops and rebels. (UPDATED)
A senior diplomat from the Syrian Embassy in Armenia appears to have defected to Dubai, joining several of his colleagues in openly backing the opposition to President Bashar al-Assad’s regime.
Armenia’s national airline, Armavia, said on Friday that it intends to continue weekly flights to Aleppo despite heavy fighting in and around Syria’s most populous city which is home to a sizable Armenian community.
Armenia announced on Thursday a major simplification of procedures for granting Armenian citizenship to thousands of ethnic Armenians in Syria increasingly affected by the country’s bloody strife.
Ethnic Armenians continued to flee Syria on Wednesday as heavy fighting intensified in Aleppo, the country’s second largest city and economic and cultural center of its 80,000-strong Armenian community.
Armenia’s national airline, Armavia, promised on Friday to consider increasing the frequency of its flights to Syria in order to help more ethnic Armenians flee the war-torn country.
Armenia’s government discussed a growing influx of ethnic Armenians from Syrian on Thursday as dozens of people protested in Yerevan against what they regard as its failure to properly deal with the “repatriation.”
Nobody has been arrested or charged more than two months after scores of people were injured in near-simultaneous explosions of thousands of balloons during an election campaign gathering organized by the ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK), police said on Friday.
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