Today, a court session will be held to address the crimes against peace and humanity, war crimes, and other illegal acts committed by the Armenian state and its armed forces, including the so-called "Nagorno-Karabakh Republic" and its illegal armed formations created by Armenia in Azerbaijan's occupied territories.

The preparatory hearing in the case of Ruben Vardanyan, an Armenian citizen facing charges under Azerbaijan’s Criminal Code for torture, mercenarism, violations of war laws, terrorism, financing terrorism, and other offenses, is set to continue on January 27.

By Neil Hauer in Yerevan For proponents of Armenia’s ongoing move towards the West, it’s been a big couple of weeks. On January 9, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan announced that his government would soon introduce a bill in parliament that would essentially begin the country’s process of applying to join the European Union.

Russia and Iran has agreed on a route for the construction of a gas pipeline through the territory of Azerbaijan. Russian President Vladimir Putin, following talks with his Iranian counterpart Masoud Peseshkian,

This statement emphasizes the need for dialogue between the prime minister of Armenia and representatives of the Western Azerbaijan Community. The primary focus is on the rights of Western Azerbaijanis and the humanitarian aspects of this issue.

It’s a pity here that Armenia’s authorities do not respond to these accusations because they are not against individuals, but they are accusations as a phenomenon that crimes have taken place in Artsakh since the [19]90s. These do not refer to these persons, but to the phenomenon itself."

Azerbaijan on Friday opened war crimes trials against Armenian separatists who led the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region before it was recaptured by Baku in a lightning offensive in 2023.

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev's aggressive rhetoric towards Armenia jeopardizes the ongoing peace process and raises concerns about regional stability.

Responding, Pashinyan said: “Perhaps [Azeri capital] Baku is trying to “legitimize” the escalation in the region. They make aggressive statements in the hope of an aggressive response from [Armenian capital] Yerevan, which [in turn] allows Baku to make its [own] statements more aggressive.

Nineteen Armenian human rights NGOs and individual advocates on Friday jointly appealed to international organizations and foreign ambassadors in Azerbaijan, urging them to oversee the trials of

January 2025 may go down as Armenia’s geopolitical inflection point, a time when Yerevan decisively moved to shun its longtime protector Russia and pin its political and economic future on integration with Western institutions, thus scrambling the strategic balance in the Caucasus.

Azerbaijan and Armenia's border delimitation commissions convened for their 11th meeting, state media reported Thursday. The discussions, held at