Armenia

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday praised Armenia and Azerbaijan for taking courageous steps towards a durable peace, as foreign ministers from the two South Caucasus nations that have clashed repeatedly over control of the…
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Armenia and Azerbaijan on Monday traded accusations of provoking a shoot-out along their troubled border, just hours before they were to hold US-mediated peace talks. The incident came ahead of a meeting of Armenian Foreign Minister…
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Armenian President Armen Sarkisian announced Sunday that he is resigning his largely symbolic position, citing the inability of his office to influence policy during times of national crisis. “This is not an emotionally-driven decision…
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Azerbaijan’s defense ministry said on Wednesday seven of its soldiers were killed and another 10 wounded in border clashes with Armenia on Nov. 16. Armenia and Azerbaijan agreed on Tuesday to a cease-fire at their border, the Armenian…
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Three Armenian soldiers were killed in an exchange of gunfire with Azerbaijan forces, Armenia’s defense ministry said on Wednesday. In six weeks of fighting last September to November, Azeri troops drove ethnic Armenian forces out of…
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Armenians are voting Sunday in a national election after months of tensions over last year’s defeat in fighting against Azerbaijan over the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh. The snap parliamentary election was called by Acting Prime…
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Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan urged U.S. President Joe Biden to swiftly reverse his declaration that 1915 massacres of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire constituted genocide, an action he said was upsetting and diminished bilateral ties.…
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Armenian President Armen Sarkisian said on Saturday he had refused to sign a prime ministerial order to dismiss the army’s chief of staff, deepening a national political crisis. The ex-Soviet nation has faced turmoil since Prime Minister…
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Tensions escalated in Armenia after the General Staff of the Armenian Army issued a statement calling for the resignation of Nikol Pashinyan's government, who in turn described the Staff’s statement as an attempted military coup.…
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Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan warned of an attempted military coup against him on Thursday after the army demanded he and his government resign. Pashinyan has faced protests and calls to quit after what critics said was the…
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