TBILISI (Reuters) -Russia expressed concern on Thursday over escalating tensions between Armenia and Azerbaijan as a key road linking Armenia to the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh enclave remained blocked for the fourth day. The two countries have fought repeated wars over Nagorno-Karabakh - ...
Azerbaijani forces on Monday shot down a Russian helicopter that was flying over Armenia near the border with Nakhchivan, killing two servicemen. Azerbaijan's foreign ministry said the helicopter was flying low and "in the context of these factors and in light of the tense situation in the regi...
Nearly 700,000 Azerbaijanis had to abandon their homes in Karabakh to make room for 150,000 Armenians. 显然 这一简短的总结对于这段冲突的历史并不十分恰当 Obviously, this brief summary does no justice to the history of the conflict. 所以你可以去看一下我们之前对于这一主题的报道来了解更多 So ...
Turkey, a member of NATO and also the Minsk group, has openly backed predominantly-Muslim Azerbaijan in the conflict, calling Armenia a threat to peace in the region. The Armenian Ministry of Defense said last week that one of its jets was shot down by a Turkish F-16. A spokeswoman...
Armenia is a food importer, and its mineral deposits (copper, gold, bauxite) are small. The ongoing conflict with Azerbaijan over the ethnic Armenian-dominated region of Nagorno-Karabakh and the breakup of the centrally directed economic system of the former Soviet Union contributed to a severe ...
After Armenia and Azerbaijan became independent in 1991, the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh evolved into full-scale armed conflict. Battle lines moved frequently, causing much death and large refugee flows. By 1993, Armenian forces controlled most of Nagorno-Karabakh, the land between Armenia and ...
View Larger Map Armenia Geography :: Armenia Location: This entry identifies the country's regional location, neighboring countries, and adjacent bodies of water. Location field listing Southwestern Asia, between Turkey (to the west) and Azerbaijan; note - Armenia views itself as part of Europe; ...
YEREVAN (Reuters) - Japan on Tuesday said it decided to extend an emergency aid grant to Armenia and Azerbaijan totalling $4.8 million, in response to the humanitarian crisis created as a result of last year's six-week conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh. ...
to resolve their dispute during a summit in russia hosted by president vladimir putin. the ex-soviet countries have been locked in a decades-old conflict over nagorno-karabakh, which is part of azerbaijan but has been under the control of ethnic armenian forces backed by armenia since a ...
Armenians and Azerbaijanis agreed Monday to a Russian-brokered cease-fire that offers a fragile hope of stopping the longest-running ethnic war in the former Soviet Union.