New clashes erupted between Azerbaijan and Armenia on Wednesday as international peace efforts intensified, a day after nearly 100 soldiers were killed in the worst fighting between the ex-Soviet republics since a 2020 war. "This issue will be discussed with Putin. Because the r...
The standoff is a test of Russia's authority as the main security guarantor in the region at a time when its struggles in the war in Ukraine risk undermining its top-dog status among former Soviet republics in the South Caucasus and Central Asia. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswo...
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MOSCOW -- The current military conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh dates back to the fall of the Soviet Union when the two fought a bloody war over the territory. The mountainous region is historically claimed by both Armenians and Azerbaijanis. ...
During the past weeks, as the artillery shells and rockets exploded around them, and occasionally on their base, the men of the 366th Motorized Rifle Regiment of the 23rd Division, 4th Army have been asking: Does anybody in Moscow remember we’re here, right in the midst of a war?
The 1991-94 war brought others to fight. Armenia had Greek intelligence helping them. The Greeks saw this as a way to open a front on Turkey. Some Afghan Islamists came to Azerbaijan to fight the infidel. The Azerbaijanis are 80% Shia. One of the mujahideen warlords who came to help ...
Stay updated with the latest news! Subscribe to The Jerusalem Post Newsletter Subscribe Now Every land mine victim has a story. Tamam Jafareva, an Azerbaijani land mine survivor, was gravely injured while chasing a cow in the wartorn Karabakh region. As a result, she has a prosthetic leg....
Question:The NATO Secretary General will meet the Armenian president at the NATO headquarters today to discuss the war in Nagorno-Karabakh. Will you raise this issue with your Turkish counterpart, and do you think NATO should play a bigger role in Nagorno-Karabakh?
The party hopes to cling to power in October’s general elections by claiming that Nato and the EU are trying to drag Georgia into Ukraine’s war. Pro-EU rally in Tbilisi “The fear of war is effective because it’s a recent trauma,” says Dachi Imedadze, a member of the Shame ...
MOSCOW —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. Dozens of other such truces have collapsed almost immediately in the bloody, six-year struggle over the enclave of...