Ilham Aliyev
24 Sep 2023
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will meet his counterpart Ilham Aliyev in the Azerbaijani exclave of Nakhchivan on Monday, Turkish media reported on Sunday.
20 Sep 2023
Azerbaijan's operation in Nagorno-Karabakh will end if Armenian separatists "lay down their arms", President Ilham Aliyev said in a phone call with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, according to a presidency statement Wednesday. Aliyev told Blinken "that anti-terrorist measures will be stopped if (Karabakh forces) lay down their arms", according to the statement released…
19 Sep 2023
Azerbaijan on Tuesday launched a military operation against the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region and demanded the total withdrawal of Armenian forces from the disputed mountainous territory as a precondition for peace. Fears of a fresh war have been growing in recent months, with Armenia accusing Azerbaijan of a troop build-up and decrying a blockade of its…
19 Sep 2023
Four policemen and two civilians were killed in separate mine blasts Tuesday in the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijan said, blaming "sabotage groups" amid spiraling tensions with neighbouring Armenia. Fears of a fresh war between the Caucasus arch-foes -- locked in a decades-long dispute over the breakaway mountainous region -- have grown in recent months.…
22 May 2023
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said Monday that his country could withdraw from Moscow-led Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO), in a fresh show of discontent over the lack of support from its ally Russia. Yerevan has grown increasingly frustrated over what it calls Russia's failure to protect Armenia in the face of military threats from…
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