Despite near-total government control over the media, RFE/RL's Azerbaijani Service has built a high-impact social-media presence in Azerbaijan and a reputation as a leading source of independent news.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke to the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan on August 5 to call for dialogue in the conflict over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region.
De facto ethnic Armenian military authorities in Nagorno-Karabakh say the situation in the breakaway region has stabilized after a flare-up in violence with Azerbaijani forces that left three soldiers dead and prompted Baku to take control of several strategic heights in the disputed region.
Ethnic Armenians and Azerbaijan have accused each other of violating a cease-fire in the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh, with both sides claiming casualties.
Eyyub Azizov, the lone resident of Sixlar in Azerbaijan, has not lost hope that life as he once knew it will return to his depopulated village.
The foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan held their first bilateral talks since the 2020 war over the status of the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Thirty years after being displaced amid conflict from their native village, some Azerbaijanis still dream of returning. Under a cease-fire deal that ended the Armenia-Azerbaijani war in and around Nagorno-Karabakh in 2020, Armenia is due to hand control of the village to Azerbaijan.
An Azerbaijani journalist, who has worked as a freelancer for RFE/RL, says she was attacked by an unknown man armed with a knife who threatened and intimidated her over her coverage of a high-profile murder trial.
Facing mounting sanctions for its invasion of Ukraine, Russia has responded by closing the gas taps to Bulgaria and Poland and threatening to do likewise to other EU states. Bulgaria now says it will look to Azerbaijan for its gas. Can Baku help the EU in its energy showdown with the Kremlin?
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev says his country will refuse to recognize Armenia's territorial integrity unless Yerevan signs a bilateral peace deal in line with proposals made by Baku.
Ayaz Mutallibov, Azerbaijan's first president following the collapse of the Soviet Union, has died in Baku at the age of 83.
Hundreds of people gathered on February 27 outside the Ukrainian Embassy in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, to express their support for the Ukrainian people amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Baku residents brought humanitarian aid to a collection center to be sent to Ukraine.
A hospital in the Azerbaijani capital has been overrun with cockroaches, hampering treatment for tuberculosis patients.
Amid ethnic tension during the late 1980s, Armenians and Azeris swapped villages near the border of what were then two Soviet republics. Before the fall of the U.S.S.R., ethnic Armenians from a village in Azerbaijan exchanged their homes with people from an Azeri-populated village in Armenia.
Azerbaijan has freed eight Armenian soldiers captured during deadly border clashes last year as the two sides look to hold new talks on easing their simmering border conflict.
Prosecutors in Azerbaijan have refused to launch a probe into the severe beating of leading opposition politician Tofiq Yaqublu while in detention last month.
A group of journalists gathered outside Azerbaijan's parliament in Baku on December 28 to protest a new media law that they say will further limit independent journalism in the country.
Jailed Azerbaijani opposition activist Saleh Rustamli, whose supporters were attacked and detained when they rallied recently to demand his release, has ended his hunger strike after 41 days.
Police in the Azerbaijani capital have violently dispersed protesters demanding the immediate release of hunger-striking opposition politician Saleh Rustamli.
Authorities in Azerbaijan detained dozens of protesters who gathered in central Baku on December 15 to demand the release of opposition activist Saleh Rustamli.
Azerbaijan's opposition reached a nadir amid the triumphalism and soaring popularity of the president after victory in a war over Nagorno-Karabakh last year. But with long-standing social and economic problems coming to the fore, a high-profile hunger strike has galvanized the country's opposition.
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