The wife of Viken Euljekian, one of the 23 Armenian prisoners held in Azerbaijan, on Tuesday renewed her appeals for his release, saying that he is not receiving adequate medical care despite his worsened health.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian said on Wednesday that construction of the so-called Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity (TRIPP) in the country’s strategic southern Syunik region is scheduled to begin in the second half of 2026.
A senior lawmaker representing Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s ruling Civil Contract party has rejected Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov’s recent claims that Armenia withdrew from peace negotiations and provoked the 2020 war in Nagorno-Karabakh.
Former Armenian Economy Minister Vahan Kerobian has been arrested as part of a corruption investigation, authorities confirmed on Friday.
Armenian law-enforcement authorities have arrested the brother and nephew of Catholicos of All Armenians Garegin II on suspicion of committing a crime amid mounting tensions between the government and the Armenian Apostolic Church.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has expressed confidence that his Civil Contract party will win Armenia’s next general elections expected in June 2026.
The United States and Armenia are engaged in detailed talks on practical modalities of a U.S.-administered transit corridor for Azerbaijan which would pass through a key Armenian region, Deputy Prime Minister Mher Grigorians said on Monday.
Armenia should be ruled by a strongman like Ramzan Kadyrov, the leader of Russia's Chechen Republic, according to a defrocked Armenian priest who has openly pledged allegiance to Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
Law-enforcement authorities pressed criminal charges against two of at least 13 priests detained by them on Wednesday in a criminal investigation linked by the Armenian Apostolic Church to Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s efforts to depose its supreme head, Catholicos Garegin II.
An Armenian bishop and at least 12 other priests were detained on Wednesday in a criminal investigation which the Armenian Apostolic Church linked to Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s continuing campaign against its top clergy.
U.S. President Donald Trump cut short a brief conversation with Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian and referred to him as a “compatriot” of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on Monday during a summit in Egypt aimed at ending the devastating war in Gaza.
Gagik Tsarukian, a wealthy businessman and politician who used to challenge Armenia’s current government, has announced that he and his political allies will run in next year’s general elections.
An Armenian parliamentary commission has not absolved Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian of blame for Armenia’s defeat in the 2020 war with Azerbaijan, an opposition lawmaker who has seen its classified report claimed on Friday.
Former President Robert Kocharian denounced on Tuesday the recent Armenian-Azerbaijani agreements brokered by U.S. President Donald Trump, saying that Armenia will effectively give up control of its border with Iran and gain nothing in return.
A U.S. court has reportedly issued a deportation order for a notorious Armenian blogger with political ambitions who is wanted in Armenia for alleged fraud, extortion and calls for violence.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ordered Azerbaijan to submit by November 4 fresh information about the detention and health conditions of 23 Armenian prisoners held by it, a Yerevan-based lawyer representing them said on Wednesday.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian again made clear on Tuesday that his government will not press Azerbaijan to enable Nagorno-Karabakh’s ethnic Armenian population displaced by the 2023 Azerbaijani offensive to return to its homeland.
Ignoring Nikol Pashinian’s objections, Azerbaijan has continued to describe as “Zangezur corridor” a special transit route for Azerbaijan which the Armenian prime minister pledged to open during a recent summit in Washington.
The outgoing Iranian ambassador to Armenia on Friday signaled Tehran’s lingering concerns about the Armenian government’s decision to let the United States administer a transit corridor for Azerbaijan adjacent to Iran.
Armenia’s National Security Service (NSS) on Tuesday declined to confirm or deny a report that its director, Andranik Simonian, discussed with Azerbaijani officials a possible prisoner swap during a weekend visit to Baku.
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