Authorities in Azerbaijan arrested several former separatist leaders of Nagorno-Karabakh on Tuesday after reclaiming control of the Armenian-populated breakaway region in a lightning military operation last month, a top Azerbaijani news agency said. Arayik Harutyunyan, who led the region before stepping down at the beginning of September, was arrested and was being brought to the … Read more
YEREVAN, Armenia — Azerbaijan’s prosecutor general issued an arrest warrant for ex-Nagorno-Karabakh leader Arayik Harutyunyan Sunday as the first United Nations mission to visit the region in three decades arrived in the former breakaway state. Harutyunyan led the breakaway region, which is internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan but was largely populated by ethnic Armenians, … Read more
Comment on this storyComment RIGA, Latvia — With virtually the entire population of Armenians feeling from Nagorno-Karabakh, refugees are voicing rage over the loss of their homeland and accusing Russia of betrayal after peacekeepers sent by Moscow failed to protect them. The lightning military operation by Azerbaijan to seize back the disputed mountainous region made … Read more
Comment on this storyComment KORNIDZOR, Armenia — At the crest of the hill in this small town at the Armenian-Azerbaijani border, now a gateway for a flood of refugees fleeing Azerbaijan’s takeover of Nagorno-Karabakh, Laura and Jorik Isakhanyan finally could pull over their white Lada Neva to change a tire. Cars streamed past them as … Read more
Comment on this storyComment You’re reading an excerpt from the Today’s WorldView newsletter. Sign up to get the rest free, including news from around the globe and interesting ideas and opinions to know, sent to your inbox every weekday. The exodus continues. In a matter of days, roughly half of the ethnic Armenian population of … Read more
Comment on this storyComment GORIS, Armenia — For more than three decades, the self-declared Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh strove for independence and international recognition, defying U.N. resolutions that affirmed Azerbaijan’s sovereign claim to the region. On Thursday, barely a week after a lightning military operation by Azerbaijan, that quest for statehood — and the dream of … Read more
YEREVAN, Armenia — Azerbaijan said it arrested the former head of Nagorno-Karabakh’s separatist government as he tried to cross into Armenia on Wednesday along with tens of thousands of others who have fled following Azerbaijan’s 24-hour blitz last week to reclaim control of the enclave. The arrest of Ruben Vardanyan was announced by Azerbaijan’s border … Read more
Comment on this storyComment RIGA, Latvia — At least 20 Armenians waiting for gasoline to flee the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh were killed and nearly 300 more were injured in an explosion at a fuel depot on Monday, according to local officials, as senior U.S. officials visited Armenia and pledged humanitarian support to deal with … Read more
Comment on this storyComment You’re reading an excerpt from the Today’s WorldView newsletter. Sign up to get the rest free, including news from around the globe and interesting ideas and opinions to know, sent to your inbox every weekday. An entire community may be on the verge of abandoning its ancestral homeland. After months of … Read more
YEREVAN, Armenia — The first refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh have arrived in Armenia, local officials reported Sunday, after Azerbaijan imposed a 10-month blockade on the breakaway region and conducted a lightning military offensive there, reclaiming full control of the region as a result. Thousands of people were evacuated from cities and villages affected by the latest … Read more