The death toll reached 16 from the explosion that occurred on Sunday from an unknown cause in the commercial zone of Yerevan, the capital of Armenia, the country’s Ministry of Emergency Situations announced today. “Sixteen bodies were found during search and rescue operations,” the ministry said. According to the same source, another 18 people are […]
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Armenia: The death toll from the explosion in Yerevan reached 5
Rescue crews recovered two more bodies from the wreckage of the building where an explosion occurred yesterday Sunday in a commercial area of Yerevan, the capital of Armenia, increasing the still provisional death toll of the disaster to 5, the TASS news agency reported today, citing the Armenian ministry. Dealing with Emergency Situations. Repeated explosions, […]
Putin and Erdogan need each other
Amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and rising tensions between Armenia and Azerbaijan, the energy interests of Moscow and Ankara appear to take precedence over the two nations’ fundamentally different geopolitical goals in places like Syria, the Black Sea region and the South Caucasus. However, despite being on opposite sides in various conflicts around the world, […]
US: ‘Deeply concerned’ about resurgence of hostilities in Nagorno-Karabakh
The US government is “deeply concerned” by renewed fighting between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces that have erupted in the disputed enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, US State Department spokesman Ned Price said yesterday. “We call for immediate action to reduce tensions and prevent further escalation,” the State Department spokesman said in a press release. Azerbaijani authorities announced […]
Azerbaijan: ‘We crushed an Armenian attack near Nagorno-Karabakh’
LAST UPDATE: 22.00 Azerbaijan’s defense ministry said today it had “crushed” an attack by Armenian forces near the disputed enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, amid international calls for an immediate end to hostilities in a region that has been a flashpoint for 30 years. Nagorno-Karabakh, backed by Armenia, broke away from Azerbaijan after a bloody ethnic conflict […]
Azerbaijan accuses Armenia of shelling near Nagorno-Karabakh
Azerbaijan’s defense ministry on Saturday accused Armenia’s armed forces of shelling its own army positions near the disputed enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, over which the two neighboring states have repeatedly been at war for three decades, according to the Russian state agency. TASS news. The ministry clarified that its forces returned artillery fire against its positions […]
The US offers to mediate between Armenia and Azerbaijan
US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken on Monday proposed US assistance in the process of rapprochement between Armenia and Azerbaijan and encouraged efforts to reach a permanent settlement of the conflict between the two countries, two years after a ceasefire agreement negotiated by Russia. During separate phone conversations with Azerbaijani President Ilam Aliyev and Armenian […]
Destination of… chief spies in Armenia: After the CIA director, Pashinyan also meets with the head of the Russian SVR
The head of Russia’s foreign spy agency met with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan this week, just three days after CIA Director William Burns visited Yerevan for talks, the Armenian government said. Sergei Naryskin, director of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), met with Pashinyan on July 18 in the same room where Pashinyan had received […]
N. Dendias: Turkey’s revisionist behavior destabilizes wider regions
Turkey’s revisionist behavior destabilizes wider regions, in the Aegean, in the Balkans, in the Middle East, in the Caucasus, Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias said in a joint statement after meeting with Armenian Foreign Minister Athens. As Mr. Dendias pointed out, he informed his counterpart “about the escalation of Turkish delinquency, both at the level of […]
Meeting of K. Mitsotakis with the Armenian Foreign Minister
The Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis received at noon, at the Maximos Palace, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Armenia, Ararat Mirzoyan, who is paying a visit to Greece. During the meeting, according to information, the traditionally high level of bilateral relations was confirmed, based on the long-term ties of friendship between the two countries, and […]