The small number of 25,000 Armenians continuing to live in Karabakh are too small in number to require an autonomous republic.
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Ali Hasanov looked over the overgrown ruins of his hometown in Nagorno-Karabakh and vowed to return and rebuild it.
Azerbaijan’s culinary attractions came into the spotlight at the Inaugural International Culinary Festival, organised by the Heydar Aliyev Foundation and the State Tourism Agency of the Republic of Azerbaijan, in Shusha, Azerbaijan.
According to a number of statements made by President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev, Azerbaijan is working on lawsuits not only against Armenia, but also against companies from "third countries" that collaborated with the aggressors and invaders.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has responded to the opposition’s accusations of failure to negotiate a Karabakh settlement.
It is possible to argue that the weightiest consequence of the 44-day war between Armenia and Azerbaijan in September–November 2020 was not Baku’s victory over Armenian forces but rather the return of Russian troops to the region in the form of “peacekeepers” in Karabakh.
Since the beginning of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s large-scale and brutal re-invasion of Ukraine, the South Caucasus has inevitably received much less international attention.
According to him, "speaking of security guarantees, Yerevan also considers Moscow's participation in building this security architecture.
Against the background of the difficult campaign and dramatic losses of the Russian army in Ukraine, provocations on the part of the personnel of the Russian peacekeeping forces temporarily deployed in the Karabakh region of Azerbaijan have recently been on the rise.
The deterioration of the situation in Qarabagh is at least partially explained by Putin’s war in Ukraine. The same Russian troops are in both places, something that irritates Baku which supports Ukraine.
Azerbaijani mine-clearing experts have so far defused 55,000 land mines and explosive ordnance in areas liberated from Armenia during the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict of November 2020.
On March 26, the Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan called on the Russian side to complete the withdrawal of “the remnants of the Armenian army and illegal Armenian armed detachments” from the Azerbaijani territories temporarily under the control of Moscow’s peacekeeping mission.
The aim of those who want a special status for Armenians in Azerbaijan is not to solve the problem, but to deepen it, and even to create new areas of intervention in the future by providing a special status and even acting as its guarantor.
"We would like to bring to the attention of the Armenian Foreign Ministry that Shusha is the indigenous territory of Azerbaijan."
By taking a different approach to the crisis, and by utilizing the humanitarian assistance at hand, UNESCO may be the final solution required in ending the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
The issue of missing persons from the first Karabakh War has recently been under intense focus, and efforts are under way to try to finally determine the fate of thousands who remain unaccounted for. For our regular columnist, Vasif Husseynov, the issue has close personal significance and importance. He shares his views in this op-ed for KarabakhSpace.
It has been long known that our "long-suffering" neighbors are quite adept at inventing all kinds of myths. They first blindly believe in those myths themselves and then frantically try to sell them to the rest of the world.
Azerbaijan’s liberation of Karabakh from Armenian occupation has opened a new page in history, Presidential Spokesperson Ibrahim Kalın said Sunday.
Many commentators on the Caucasus have suggested that the real sticking point in the delimitation of the Armenian-Azerbaijan border is the area around the Lachin corridor which links Armenia with what was once the Armenian statelet of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Russia and Turkey opened a joint centre on Saturday to observe a ceasefire in Nagorno-Karabakh that was agreed following a flare-up in the conflict in the region last year, Azerbaijan's defence ministry said on Saturday.
According to some estimates, there are at least 110 million landmines across the globe, and each year about 10,000 people are either killed or injured by these mines.
Last September, long-brewing strains between Iran and Azerbaijan reached an unprecedented level, resulting in the deployment of troops and large-scale military drills by both sides.
Many who fled Nagorno-Karabakh in the ’90s hope to live in their old homes after last year’s war, but progress is slow.
The first Karabakh war between Armenia and Azerbaijan and the subsequent 30-year Armenian occupation of Karabakh region of Azerbaijan have left dozens of villages and towns in ruins.