Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan-Armenia sign Russian-brokered peace deal This will put an end to the long-running conflict, said Russian President Vladimir Putin. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan made the announcement on social media on Tuesday morning local time. This...

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev declared on Sunday there was no reason for Russia to intervene in the dispute over Nagorno-Karabakh because Baku is not threatening Armenian territory. Fighting has been raging over Karabakh — an ethnic...

Armenia and Azerbaijan agreed to a ceasefire from noon Saturday and to begin “substantive talks” over Nagorno-Karabakh, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov announced after marathon discussions held in Moscow. Speaking after 11 hours of talks between...

Russia said on Friday that Armenia and Azerbaijan had agreed to hold talks in Moscow to end the Nagorno-Karabakh war. They agreed after President Vladimir Putin called for peace talks, reports AFP. “Baku and Iravan have...

Azerbaijani army has liberated 22 areas of Karabakh from Armenian occupation. The Turkish Defense Ministry said on Monday. Neighboring Armenia and Azerbaijan have been embroiled in a war since September 27 over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region....

The 18th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) kicked off here this morning drawing heads of state and government of different countries including Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at Azerbaijan capital of Baku, reports BSS. Azerbaijan’s...

An assassination attempt and protest in Azerbaijan’s second city have sent a warning to the ruling elite that discontent is simmering in the tightly controlled, oil-producing state. Police have arrested a local man over the attack...

Video footage broadcast on local television showed huge flames leaping through barred windows of a one-story wooden hospital ward. Twenty-five people perished in a fire which tore through a drug rehabilitation clinic in the Azerbaijani capital...

News Hour: Five Azeri soldiers were killed in clashes with Armenia-backed separatists along the boundary with the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region, Azerbaijan’s defense ministry said on Monday, with each side accusing the other of an attempted incursion....

News Hour: One oil worker was killed and nine others were missing Thursday after the oil platform they were working on in the Caspian Sea collapsed in heavy winds, Azerbaijan’s state energy firm SOCAR said, reports...