Tag Archives: Nagorno-Karabakh

Armenia said on Wednesday that three of its soldiers had been killed in an exchange of gunfire with Azerbaijan and both sides later accepted a Russian ceasefire proposal to try to calm tensions. Armenia’s defense ministry said in a statement that Azeri forces had attacked Armenian positions near the border …

Three Armenian troops were killed in border clashes with Azerbaijani forces on Wednesday, Yerevan said, in the deadliest military incident between the arch-foes since their war last year over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region. “As a result of armed action launched following an attack by Azerbaijani forces, there are three dead …

Azerbaijan on Friday said an Armenian sniper had killed one of its soldiers at the border between the two countries and that its army was taking response measures. Azerbaijan’s defense ministry said in a statement the incident took place at the part of the border formed by its Kalbajar district, …

Azerbaijan’s serious crimes court says those sentenced will be deported after serving their prison terms. An Azerbaijan court has sentenced 13 members of Armenia’s armed forces to six years in prison, finding them guilty of illegally crossing the border, weapons possession, and terrorism offenses. Armenia had no immediate reaction to …

Azerbaijan handed over 15 prisoners of Armenian origin to Armenia on Saturday in return for maps detailing the locations of 92,000 anti-tank and anti-personnel mines, Azerbaijan’s foreign ministry said. Ethnic Armenian and Azeri forces fought a bloody conflict over the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave last year that locked in territorial gains for …

Turkey and Azerbaijan started joint military drills in Azerbaijan on Monday, deploying tanks, helicopters, and drones, Russia’s RIA news agency reported, citing Azerbaijan’s defense ministry. Ankara last year backed Azerbaijan’s effort to drive ethnic Armenian forces out of swathes of territory they had controlled since the 1990s in and around …

Armenians were voting in a parliamentary election on Sunday, with opinion polls putting the party of acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and that of former President Robert Kocharyan neck-and-neck.

Azerbaijan said on Saturday it had handed over 15 Armenian prisoners in exchange for a map detailing the location of landmines in Agdam, a region relinquished by ethnic Armenian forces as a part of a deal to end a short war last year. A Russian-brokered ceasefire halted six weeks of …

Three killed and four wounded after the anti-tank mine explodes in the Kalbajar region. A landmine explosion in Azerbaijan’s Kalbajar region, west of Nagorno-Karabakh, has killed two Azerbaijani journalists and an official, authorities said. Four others were injured in Friday’s incident, which saw an anti-tank mine blow up a truck …

Six Armenian servicemen have been captured attempting to cross the Armenian-Azeri border, TASS news agency reported on Thursday citing the Azeri defence ministry. Earlier this week, Armenia accused Azerbaijan of firing at Armenian positions. Azerbaijan denied the accusation.

Azerbaijan’s defence ministry on Tuesday denied accusations by Armenia that it had fired across the border at Armenian positions. Armenia’s defence ministry said earlier that an Armenian soldier had been killed during a shootout with Azeri forces on its eastern border with Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan’s defence ministry said in a statement …

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on Friday asked Russian President Vladimir Putin for military support, the Interfax news agency reported, amid a renewed rise in tensions between Armenia and Azerbaijan that last year exploded into a bloody conflict. Putin held a phone call late on Thursday with Pashinyan, during which …

Azerbaijan dismisses the accusations, saying it was enforcing its own border and is committed to easing tensions. Armenia’s leader has accused Azerbaijani troops of crossing the southern border and trying to stake claim to territory in a new escalation of tensions between the regional foes. Nikol Pashinyan, the country’s acting …