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.
Azerbaijani authorities say they have arrested four servicemen suspected of desecrating the bodies of dead Armenian soldiers and of vandalizing gravestones at Armenian cemeteries during recent fighting over the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has arrived in the Azerbaijani capital, Baku, for a two-day visit with officials of Ankara's close ally.
Azerbaijan has extended the coronavirus quarantine and toughened movement restrictions amid an increasing number of infections in the country.
Nearly 2,800 Azerbaijani soldiers were killed in fighting with ethnic Armenian forces over Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijani officials said, the first time Baku has published casualty figures from the 44-day conflict.
Azerbaijan has completed reclaiming three districts held by ethnic Armenian forces for more than a quarter-century after a peace deal ended six weeks of fierce fighting over the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region.
Azerbaijani forces moved into the district of Lachin early on December 1. It was the last of three territories ceded by Armenia under a peace deal that ended a six-week war over Azerbaijan's breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region.
A member of the opposition Azerbaijan Popular Front Party, Mahammad Imanli, has been sentenced to one year in prison for breaking coronavirus measures, a charge he rejects as false, calling it politically motivated.
Azerbaijan says its forces have entered the Lachin district, the last of three handed back by Armenia as part of a deal that ended six weeks of fighting over the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region.
A prosecutor has asked a court in Baku to imprison a member of the opposition Azerbaijan Popular Front Party (AXCP) for failing to comply with coronavirus precautions and "spreading the disease."
Azerbaijani lawmakers on November 26 called for France to be expelled from the Minsk Group mediating in the Nagorno-Karabakh dispute after the French Senate backed the breakaway region's independence claim.
Two weeks after a cease-fire, an untold number of Azerbaijani families can only guess whether their sons, brothers, and nephews are still alive.
Azerbaijani troops have moved into the Kalbacar district after it was handed over by Armenia as part of a deal that ended six weeks of fighting over the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region.
Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed the implementation of a Russian-brokered agreement that stopped the war in the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region in separate phone calls with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
Azerbaijan's Prosecutor-General's Office says it has launched probes into several videos showing the possible torture of captured Armenian soldiers and the desecration of the corpses of Armenian troops by Azerbaijani servicemen during recent fighting in the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Azerbaijani troops have arrived in the country's Agdam district, a day after Armenian forces withdrew under the terms of a peace deal ending six weeks of fighting in and around Nagorno-Karabakh. Many Armenian civilians, who had just days to pack their belongings, burned their houses as they departed
For hundreds of thousands of Azerbaijanis displaced during the early 1990s by the war over Nagorno-Karabakh, a Russian-brokered truce has reignited dreams of returning home.
Azerbaijanis who fled the Nagorno-Karabakh region during the 1990s conflict with Armenians are now looking forward to returning to their home villages. But as Armenians left, they were burning their houses and ripping down electricity poles.
Azerbaijan has agreed to extend a deadline for Armenia to withdraw from a district as part of a peace agreement that ended a six-week war over the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region.
A Russian-brokered agreement with Azerbaijan to end fighting over the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh triggered an explosion of anger in Armenia. Protesters stormed the government headquarters in Yerevan and parliament. Meanwhile, celebrations broke out in Azerbaijan.
The leaders of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Russia have signed an agreement to end fighting over the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh starting on November 10, triggering unrest in the Armenian capital as protesters stormed government buildings.
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