A month after the first signs of smoke and flame, victims are still mourning the loss of small things, a snapshot or a teacup ...

Tabriz, with its Christian Armenian population and its ancient churches ... a Jewish man—would close his shop on Saturdays for Shabbat. Details like these stood out to me, subtly reinforcing ...

Azerbaijan has shown its ambitions extend to sovereign territory in Armenia: the seizure of the so-called Zangezur corridor in southern Armenia, in the region of Syunik. AZERBAIJAN’S PRESIDENT ...

Armenia’s parliament adopted a bill Wednesday aimed at starting the process of joining the European Union. Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan in January said that the Armenian government wants EU ...

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Azerbaijan’s president, Ilham Aliyev, has launched a fierce verbal attack on Armenia, which he has called a fascist state. “Fascism must be destroyed,” he said in an interview on local TV ...

Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has provoked a storm of criticism from his political opponents and historians after questioning the 1915 Armenian genocide in Ottoman Turkey and the decades-long ...

WASHINGTON, Jan. 21, 2025—The World Bank Group’s Board of Executive Directors today endorsed a new five-year Country Partnership Framework (CPF) for Armenia. The framework aims to reduce poverty and ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Pedalling up a vast, tilted pasture under scurrying cloud, I wonder where else Armenia reminds me of.

The Erasure of Armenian Christianity in Artsakh Artsakh, also known as Nagorno-Karabakh, has been home to Armenian Christians for centuries. However, this heritage has been systematically targeted ...

It is quite uncomfortable to explain Shabbat observance to an outsider. To tell a complete stranger that you cannot so much as press an elevator button will, for the most part, elicit vacant stares.

The trial of 16 Armenian prisoners, including eight former leaders of the former self-proclaimed republic, opened on Friday, January 17 in Baku, Azerbaijan. Their charges include "terrorism ...