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.
The EU envoy for the South Caucasus and Georgia has called for investigations into videos that appear to show potential war crimes being committed by Azerbaijan and Armenia in recent clashes that have threatened a fragile cease-fire agreement.
Renewed fighting between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces broke out on September 28, killing three Armenian troops, Yerevan said as the two sides again blamed each other for shooting first across their shared border.
Many Azerbaijanis were supportive of their government's 2020 war to reclaim territory around the breakaway territory of Nagorno-Karabakh. But as more people speak out after a series of border clashes, they are being targeted and tagged on social media as traitors.
Armenia and Azerbaijan have traded fresh accusations over a violation of a fragile cease-fire agreement that ended the worst fighting between the two ex-Soviet Caucasus countries since a 2020 war over the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh.
The United States has urged a quick return to face-to-face meetings between Armenian and Azerbaijani officials to ease tensions after recent border fighting that killed more than 200 people.
The Armenian and Azerbaijani foreign ministers have met in New York in their first talks since recent deadly border clashes claimed more than 200 lives.
The speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, has confirmed she will visit Armenia this weekend after the worst fighting in two years between Armenia and Azerbaijan left more than 200 dead.
A cease-fire between Armenia and Azerbaijan appears to be holding after two days of heavy fighting linked to a decades-old dispute between the Caucasus neighbors over the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh killed dozens.
Clashes erupted again on September 14 between Azerbaijan and Armenia as world leaders called for an immediate cessation in hostilities and international peace efforts intensified.
Azerbaijan says it lost 50 troops in overnight clashes with ethnic Armenian troops after Yerevan said that at least 49 of its soldiers were killed in the fighting -- the deadliest since Armenia and Azerbaijan fought a six-week war in 2020 over the breakaway Azerbaijani region of Nagorno-Karabakh.
The editor in chief of a leading independent Azerbaijani news organization and a lawyer have been ordered to serve four months of pretrial detention in a case involving allegations of bribery that both deny.
Armenia's Defense Ministry says that one of its conscripts was shot and killed at a combat post this week in the eastern part of the country's mutual border with Azerbaijan.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev says his country’s armed forces have taken control over the key town of Lachin, which links the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh with Armenia, that had been under the control of Russian peacekeepers since November 2020.
The leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan have agreed to meet in Brussels on August 31 for talks mediated by the European Union, the Armenian government said on August 25.
A deputy head of Azerbaijan's national firefighting service has been dismissed and arrested following the leak of an "intimate" video that authorities say is one of numerous sexual encounters he secretly recorded on the service computer in his office.
Ethnic Armenians living near the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region are preparing to leave their homes, as a key roadway in the sliver of land connecting Armenia to the Azerbaijani region is completed. Many are reluctant to leave, while some Azerbaijanis who fled 30 years ago hope to return.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke to the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan on August 5 to call for dialogue in the conflict over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region.
De facto ethnic Armenian military authorities in Nagorno-Karabakh say the situation in the breakaway region has stabilized after a flare-up in violence with Azerbaijani forces that left three soldiers dead and prompted Baku to take control of several strategic heights in the disputed region.
Ethnic Armenians and Azerbaijan have accused each other of violating a cease-fire in the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh, with both sides claiming casualties.
Eyyub Azizov, the lone resident of Sixlar in Azerbaijan, has not lost hope that life as he once knew it will return to his depopulated village.
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