African countries are acquiring increasing numbers of Turkey’s Bayraktar TB2 drone to fight rebel groups, analyst Paul Melly wrote for the BBC on Wednesday. African countries such as Togo, Niger, Ethiopia, Morocco and Tunisia have already acquired the Turkish-made weapon, whose popularity has been fueled by its effectiveness in many conflicts around the world, Melly […]
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Reuters: Kazakhstan turns its back on Putin – To export oil through Azerbaijan
Kazakhstan is expected to start selling some of its crude oil output through Azerbaijan’s largest oil pipeline from September, as the Central Asian country looks for alternatives to exports through Russia after the latter has threatened to shut down its pipelines to Kazakh crude, three sources with knowledge of the matter told Reuters. Russia, Kazakhstan […]
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 […]
Bulgaria: Discussions on additional natural gas supplies from Azerbaijan
Outgoing Prime Minister Kirill Petkov discussed with Azeri President Ilham Aliyev the possibility of supplying Bulgaria with additional quantities of Azeri natural gas, beyond the planned quantities for the new connecting Greece-Bulgaria pipeline. This was announced today by the press center of the cabinet. The energy ministers of the two countries will discuss the details […]
EU: Towards a new agreement with Azerbaijan for the import of natural gas
The European Union is set to sign a new gas import deal with Azerbaijan, CNBC reports, citing a source in the bloc, as European officials step up their pace to secure energy security deals for the 27-nation bloc, in the shadow of a possible universal interruption of Russian flows to Europe. Europe has been preparing […]
The president of the European Commission is going to Azerbaijan tomorrow
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will travel to Baku on Monday in search of more natural gas from Azerbaijan, the Commission said, as the EU seeks to reduce its dependence on Russian energy resources. “Amid Russia’s continued weaponization of energy reserves, diversifying our energy imports is a priority for the EU,” the Commission […]