Azerbaijan’s President says France will be to blame if new conflict starts with Armenia
Moscow, RussiaReuters Azerbaijan’s President scolded the European Union and warned that France’s decision to send military aid to Armenia could trigger a new conflict in the South Caucasus after a lightening Azerbaijani military operation last month. Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev last week pulled out of an EU-brokered meeting with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan at […]
ICRC combs streets of “deserted” Karabakh capital for stranded residents
Geneva, SwitzerlandReuters Only a few hundred people remain behind in the capital of Nagorno-Karabakh, including the sick, disabled and elderly, an International Committee of the Red Cross official said on Tuesday, describing the empty streets as “surreal”. Azerbaijani forces took control of the enclave on its territory populated by ethnic Armenians, triggering an exodus of […]
“The stars aligned”: In taking Karabakh, Azerbaijan’s President avenged his father
ANDREW OSBORN, of Reuters, reports on the recent background to events in Nagorno-Karabakh…
UN mission arrives in Nagorno-Karabakh as ethnic Armenian exodus nears end
Reuters A United Nations mission arrived in Nagorno-Karabakh on Sunday, Azerbaijani media reported, as a mass exodus of ethnic Armenians from the region began drawing to a close following a Azerbaijani military offensive last month. The mission, led by a senior UN aid official, is the global body’s first access to the region in about […]
More than 100,000 refugees arrive in Armenia as exodus swells
Geneva, SwitzerlandReuters More than 100,000 refugees have arrived in Armenia since Azerbaijan’s military operation to retake control of Nagorno-Karabakh, the United nations said, while thousands more endured long hours of delay in a huge traffic jam at the border. “Many are hungry, exhausted and need immediate assistance,” Filippo Grandi, head of the UN refugee agency […]
Karabakh Armenians dissolve breakaway government in capitulation to Azerbaijan
Goris, Armenia Reuters Ethnic Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh said on Thursday they were dissolving the breakaway statelet they had defended for three decades, where more than half the population has fled since Azerbaijan launched a lightning offensive last week. In a statement, they said their self-declared Republic of Artsakh would “cease to exist” by 1st January, […]
Armenian priest fears for Karabakh’s Christian heritage amid mass exodus
Kornidzor, Armenia Reuters Father David fears for Nagorno-Karabakh’s ancient Christian heritage following the defeat of the region’s ethnic Armenian breakaway enclave by Azerbaijani forces. The 33-year-old Armenian priest has come to Kornidzor, a village on the border with mainly Muslim Azerbaijan, to provide spiritual support to tens of thousands of his compatriots now fleeing their […]
Azerbaijan arrests former top Karabakh minister as exodus tops 50,000
Goris, Armenia Reuters A former head of the breakaway ethnic Armenian government in Nagorno-Karabakh was arrested by Azerbaijan on Wednesday as he tried to escape into Armenia as part of an exodus of tens of thousands of people that has triggered a humanitarian crisis. Ruben Vardanyan, a billionaire banker and philanthropist, headed Karabakh’s separatist government […]
Updated: Thousands flee Karabakh to Armenia, death toll rises in fuel depot blast
Updated: 12:30pm (AEST)Near Kornidzor, ArmeniaReuters Hungry and exhausted Armenian families jammed roads on Tuesday to flee homes in the defeated breakaway enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, a departure blighted by an explosion at a fuel depot that killed dozens and injured more than 100. The crisis prompted the US Agency for International Development to announce that Washington […]
Thirty-four years after fleeing Azerbaijan, a Karabakh Armenian is on the move again
Goris, ArmeniaReuters For the second time in his life, Samvel Alaverdyan is fleeing Azerbaijan. Born to an ethnic Armenian family in the capital Baku, Alaverdyan first left as a child in 1989 when violence broke out between Azeris and Armenians over the breakaway territory of Nagorno-Karabakh. Now he has escaped from Karabakh itself, where Azerbaijan […]