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.
An Azerbaijani media-rights group has added its name to the list of organizations urging the government to release a hunger-striking blogger who was targeted with a new charge just weeks before his expected release from prison.
Azerbaijan's Supreme Court has reduced by two months the three-year prison term imposed on a prominent opposition leader who was jailed on cash-smuggling charges.
U.S. President Donald Trump's national-security adviser, John Bolton, says that the United States is going to assess whether Russia has changed its behavior in the wake of its alleged March 4 attempt to poison ex-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia.
White House national-security adviser John Bolton says the United States will continue to support a peaceful solution of the conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia over the Nagorno-Karabakh region.
The U.K.'s focus on a multimillion-dollar luxury shopping splurge by the wife of a jailed Azerbaijani banker raises the specter that President Ilham Aliyev and his family might be asked to explain their overseas wealth.
The town of Kandovan in western Iran is made up of a cluster of ancient caves carved into the soft volcanic rock. Cave residents appreciate their homes' historic legacy -- and their comfort.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has sacked the administrative head of the country's second-largest city, weeks after the official was wounded in an armed attack and two police officers were stabbed to death.
The leader of Azerbaijan's opposition Republican Alternative (REAL) party has been released from prison after serving more than five years of his seven-year term.
A jailed Azerbaijani anticorruption blogger was allowed to attend his mother's funeral on August 7.
A small district along Azerbaijan's southern border with Iran is feeling the ill effects of being along one of the world's major drug-trade routes.
Protesters have clashed with police, killing two officers in Azerbaijan's second-largest city, a week after a shooting that targeted the city's chief executive.
Azerbaijan's Interior Ministry says 14 people have been sentenced to jail terms ranging from 10 to 30 days for online comments about a massive power outage and a high-profile shooting last week.
Elmar Valiyev, the administrative head of Azerbaijan's second largest city of Ganja, was seriously injured in an armed attack late on July 3, authorities said.
The lights went out across Azerbaijan, as a network-wide power outage plunged cities, towns, and businesses into darkness.
Authorities have worked to restore electricity across Azerbaijan after an apparent explosion at a hydroelectric station caused one of the country's worst power outages in decades.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has talked tough at a military parade, calling the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region "primordially Azerbaijani territory" and saying Baku will never accept its "occupation."
Azerbaijan's Supreme Court has upheld the two-year prison sentence to anticorruption blogger Mehman Huseynov who was convicted of libel and sentenced to two years in prison last year.
A court in Baku has rejected an appeal by RFE/RL's Azerbaijani Service against the blockage of its website, azadliq.org, backing a move that has been condemned by rights groups and Western governments.
Azerbaijan has inaugurated the first phase of the Southern Gas Corridor (SGC) project aimed at transporting natural gas from the Caspian Sea to Europe, bypassing Russia.
Authoritarian leader Ilham Aliyev has been sworn in to a fourth term as president of Azerbaijan after a landslide victory in an election boycotted by opponents and criticized by international observers.
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