Armenia on Thursday blamed Azerbaijan’s blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh for last week’s deaths of two young Karabakh children whose mother had to leave them unattended to get some food.
One of the two Azerbaijani soldiers detained in Armenia in April was convicted of killing an Armenian man and sentenced to 20 years in prison on Wednesday.
Residents of Nagorno-Karabakh struggled with worsening shortages of food and medicine on Monday four days after Azerbaijan completely blocked relief supplies to the Armenian-populated region.
Azerbaijan did not allow relief supplies to and medical evacuations from Nagorno-Karabakh for the second consecutive day on Friday, aggravating a humanitarian crisis in the Armenian-populated region effectively cut off from the outside world since December.
A local government official affiliated with Armenia’s ruling Civil Contract party is prosecuted for assaulting a fellow villager but is not yet facing charges stemming from his recent threats to “shoot” Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s detractors.
Two Armenian soldiers were captured by Azerbaijani forces late on Friday in what Armenia’s Defense Ministry described at the weekend as a cross-border incursion.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) resumed the evacuation of critically ill patients from Nagorno-Karabakh to Armenia on Friday after a one-month hiatus caused by the tightening of Azerbaijan’s blockade of the Lachin corridor.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) confirmed on Wednesday that it had to stop evacuating critically ill patients from Nagorno-Karabakh to Armenia shortly after Azerbaijan set up a checkpoint on the Lachin corridor late last month.
The Armenian government announced on Friday plans to introduce voluntary military service for women.
Armenia’s largest gold mine was unable to restart production operations for the third consecutive day on Monday due to what its management and workers described as cross-border fire from nearby Azerbaijani army positions.
At least three Azerbaijani and four Armenian soldiers were killed on Tuesday in fresh fighting that broke out on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border.
Azerbaijani troops have not withdrawn from community lands of an Armenian border village occupied by them last week, local residents insisted on Monday, denying the Armenian government’s implicit claims to the contrary.
Hackers hijacked the YouTube channel of a leading Armenian newspaper this week as it was about to post a video report on personal enrichment of key members of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s political team.
Nagorno-Karabakh’s two top leaders on Thursday pointedly declined to deny or confirm reports that they have secretly visited Moscow to discuss with Russian officials Azerbaijan’s continuing blockade of the Lachin corridor.
The families of most of the 15 Armenian soldiers found dead at their military barracks last month said on Wednesday that they deeply distrust an ongoing criminal investigation into the shock deaths.
Azerbaijan reportedly again halted Armenia’s natural gas supplies to Nagorno-Karabakh on Monday nearly two months after effectively blocking the sole road connecting the Armenian-populated region to the outside world.
Four days after the latest disruption in supplies of natural gas from Armenia, authorities in Nagorno-Karabakh shut down on Tuesday all compressed gas stations selling fuel used by most local cars.
Fifteen soldiers were killed and three others seriously injured in what authorities said was a major fire that broke out at a military barracks in Armenia early on Thursday.
Azerbaijani government-backed protesters blocking Nagorno-Karabakh’s land link with Armenia stopped and entered on Tuesday night Russian military vehicles carrying Karabakh Armenian children separated from their families.
The Armenian Apostolic Church on Friday expressed solidarity for Nagorno-Karabakh and urged its embattled residents to “remain firm” in the face of the continuing Azerbaijani blockade of the region’s land link with Armenia.
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