BAKU, Jan 21 (Reuters) - Seven people went on trial in Azerbaijan on Tuesday in the latest of a series of cases against staff of independent news media, prompting accusations of a crackdown on the ...

AP They were captured in September 2023, during Azerbaijan's lightning offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh aimed at regaining full control of the separatist enclave. The trial of 16 Armenian prisoners ...

ASTANA – Joint investigations are underway into the crash of the Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL) plane near Aktau, in coordination with authorities of Kazakhstan and Russia, including the Prosecutor’s ...

President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan has issued a decree activating the “Digital Development Concept of the Republic of Azerbaijan,” a document which outlines the country’s roadmap for the development ...

BP Plc restarted one of two production platforms in Azerbaijan’s largest natural gas deposit of Shah Deniz that’s been out of operation for more than a week due to an unplanned outage.

Ex-Moscow investment banker Ruben Vardanyan and 15 other Armenian leaders of the formerly contested Nagorno-Karabakh region went on trial in Azerbaijan on Friday. Vardanyan is being tried ...

Azerbaijan says Russian air defenses were at fault. By Anton Troianovski Reporting from Baku, Azerbaijan It was a tense conversation between two authoritarian leaders accustomed to getting their way.

BAKU, Jan 16 (Reuters) - Azerbaijan has refused to renew its cooperation agreement with The United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov said on ...

The government’s crackdown on dissenting voices has escalated over the past year. The UN Climate Change Conference (COP29) took place in Baku, Azerbaijan, from November 11 to 22, 2024. Despite the ...

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Türkiye and Azerbaijan celebrate 33 years of diplomatic ties, established in 1992 after Baku declared its independence from the Soviet Union. The Turkish Consulate in Baku was transformed into an ...

FILE PHOTO: Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev speaks during the Opening Ceremony of the United Nations climate change conference COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan November 12, 2024. [Photo/Agencies ...