A leading Armenian Diaspora charity is subsidizing, for a second consecutive month, housing expenses of hundreds of ethnic Armenians from Syria who have taken refuge in Armenia and are struggling to make ends meet.
Seven ethnic Armenians have been kidnapped near the war-stricken Syrian city of Aleppo, local Armenian sources and the Foreign Ministry in Yerevan said on Tuesday.
A second planeload of humanitarian aid has been successfully delivered from Armenia to Syria, organizers of the non-governmental relief effort said on Wednesday.
Syria’s national airline said on Tuesday that it will continue carrying out weekly flights to Armenia despite Turkey’s decision to close its airspace to Syrian aircraft.
An Armenian cargo plane carrying 14 tons of humanitarian assistance arrived in the war-torn Syrian city of Aleppo late on Monday after being ordered to land and searched in Turkey.
A senior member of Armenia’s ruling party on Friday dismissed opinions that the concern voiced by a Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly representative regarding the prosecution of former Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian amounted to an evaluation from the Strasbourg-based body.
A prominent Armenian American scholar believes the time has come for raising demands for justice instead of seeking reaffirmations of what more than two dozen governments of the world and many historians have recognized as the genocide of Armenians in Ottoman Turkey at the beginning of last century.
Senior members of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) said on Tuesday that have stored 30 tons of key foodstuffs since launching a campaign help to ethnic Armenian and other civilians in Syria two weeks ago.
Four Syrians of Armenian descent were killed and at least 11 others wounded near Aleppo airport on Tuesday night shortly after the latest flight from Yerevan to Syria’s commercial capital.
Citing reported security threats from Syrian rebels, Armenia’s national airline suspended on Monday its regular flights from Yerevan to Aleppo that have enabled hundreds of ethnic Armenians to flee Syria in recent weeks.
Nine Syrian nationals remained stranded at Yerevan’s Zvartnots airport for a third day on Wednesday after being refused Armenian visas on the grounds that they failed to prove their ethnic Armenian origin.
Syrian government troops have regained control of the main Armenian-populated districts in Syria’s largest city of Aleppo, a senior Armenian government official said late on Tuesday.
Syrian rebels have seized the main Armenian-populated districts in Syria’s largest city of Aleppo after weeks of heavy fighting with government forces, a diplomatic source in Yerevan claimed on Tuesday.
Fundraising for Syria’s endangered Armenian community organized by a pan-Armenian charity headquartered in Yerevan has gotten off to a slow start, with only about $50,000 in donations received so far.
Syrian nationals of Armenian descent seeking to become Armenia’s citizens can expect to receive their new passports within up to seven months, immigration authorities in Yerevan said on Friday.
A second group of ethnic Armenian children from Syria arrived in Armenia on Tuesday to spend their holidays at a local summer camp as part of a special program launched by the authorities in Yerevan.
The first group of more than 100 ethnic Armenian children from crisis-hit Syria were flown to Armenia on Thursday for summer holidays organized by the Armenian government.
The Armavia airline said on Wednesday that it will carry out several additional flights to Syria this month to bring hundreds of Syrian children of Armenian descent to Armenia as part of a government program.
Armenia’s Armavia airline said that it still has no plans to cancel regular flights to Aleppo despite intensifying fighting there that left at least one ethnic Armenian resident of the besieged Syrian city dead on Tuesday.
Armenia has temporarily moved its consulate-general in Aleppo to a safer location in Syria’s largest city after more than a week of fierce fighting between Syrian government troops and rebels, official Yerevan announced over the weekend.
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