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Residents in the Armenian village of Tegh are worried that violence along the Azerbaijani border could escalate further after a deadly skirmish between soldiers from both countries. The Armenian and Azerbaijani defense ministries reported a total of seven deaths among members of their armed forces.
The defense ministries of Armenia and Azerbaijan reported a total of seven deaths in renewed fighting at one of the sections of the restive border between the two South Caucasus nations.
The son of Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian, Ashot Pashinian, has denied reports that he was attacked.
Russia has banned imports of dairy products from Armenia allegedly on health issues as relations between the two allied nations sour.
The Russian Defense Ministry accused Azerbaijan of violating a Moscow-brokered cease-fire agreement by allowing its troops to cross over a set demarcation line.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has offered support in facilitating bilateral peace discussions with Azerbaijan in a phone call on March 20 with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
Armenia's Defense Ministry has rejected as "untrue" an accusation from Caucasus archfoe Azerbaijan that Yerevan is transporting military equipment to the Nagorno-Karabakh region via ground routes bypassing the Lachin Corridor at the heart of a monthslong blockade widely blamed on Baku.
Five security personnel were killed in an apparent shootout between ethnic Armenian police in Nagorno-Karabakh and Azerbaijani soldiers in the breakaway region, authorities on both sides said.
At an international school in Armenia, students from Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus share their views on the war, a year after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. While the students' hopes for peace have not been met, they continue to discuss possible solutions to the conflict.
Billionaire Ruben Vardanian, a former Russian citizen of Armenian descent, has been removed from the post of prime minister in the de facto government of the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh less than four months after he was appointed.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will hold a trilateral meeting with the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan in Munich on February 18, the U.S. State Department said.
Armenia has proposed creating a demilitarized zone around Nagorno-Karabakh with international guarantees as part of its latest peace plan on the breakaway region, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has announced.
Armenia's top diplomat traveled to Turkey in a rare visit for talks with Turkish officials.
Armenia has sent humanitarian aid to earthquake-stricken Turkey across the long-closed border separating the two historic enemies, the government in Yerevan said.
Zaruhi Zakarian sews patterns into cloth, showing branching trees made of colorful threads. The images, along with collages and paintings, suggest hope, she says, that her missing son Robert will return. He is one of some 200 Armenian soldiers missing in action since the 2020 war with Azerbaijan.
An Armenian military officer has been arrested over a deadly fire last week that killed 15 soldiers and critically injured three others in the South Caucasus country.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has urged Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev to reopen Nagorno-Karabakh's land link with Armenia, warning that a blockade of the corridor could undermine peace efforts between the two countries.
Fifteen soldiers were killed and three more were critically injured in a major fire that broke out at a military barracks in Armenia, the Defense Ministry said.
Authorities in Armenian-populated Nagorno-Karabakh have accused Azerbaijan of again cutting off natural gas supplies to the breakaway region one month after blocking the region’s land link with Armenia.
Some 270 Armenian children have been cut off from their parents in the breakaway Azerbaijani region of Nagorno-Karabakh after Azerbaijan blocked the only road linking Armenia to the landlocked enclave.
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