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.
Authorities in Nagorno-Karabakh have banned local restaurants from hosting large dinner parties and post-funeral gatherings, citing growing shortages of food resulting from a road blockade imposed by Azerbaijan.
A children’s hospital in Stepanakert was reportedly running out of lifesaving medicines on Monday two weeks after Azerbaijan blocked Nagorno-Karabakh’s sole land link with Armenia.
Nagorno-Karabakh’s leadership on Tuesday called on the international community to pressure Azerbaijan to reopen the sole road connecting the region to Armenia.
Azerbaijan has restored natural gas supplies to Nagorno-Karabakh while continuing to block the sole road connecting the territory to Armenia, the authorities in Stepanakert said on Friday.
Fuel was in short supply in Nagorno-Karabakh and local residents reportedly stocked up on basic foodstuffs and drugs on Thursday on the fourth day of a road blockade imposed by Azerbaijan.
Authorities in Nagorno-Karabakh shut down most schools and began rationing fuel on Wednesday as the Armenian-populated territory remained cut off from the outside world for the third consecutive day.
The Armenian government accused Azerbaijan on Tuesday of grossly violating a 2020 ceasefire agreement and creating a “humanitarian catastrophe” in Nagorno-Karabakh as the sole road connecting the territory to Armenia remained closed for a second day.
Parents of Armenian soldiers missing after recent border clashes with Azerbaijani forces rallied outside the Defense Ministry in Yerevan on Monday to demand information about their whereabouts.
At least 60 houses and other structures in border settlements in Armenia were destroyed by shelling during two days of heavy fighting between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces, a senior official in Yerevan said on Thursday.
Thousands of residents of Armenian towns and villages close to the Azerbaijani border have fled their homes since the outbreak of large-scale fighting between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces on Monday night.
Bowing to strong pressure from Azerbaijan, authorities in Nagorno-Karabakh have ordered ethnic Armenian residents of the Lachin corridor connecting the territory to Armenia to leave their homes before the end of this month.
Armenia is due to start building next month the Armenian section of a new highway that will replace the existing corridor connecting it with Nagorno-Karabakh.
Close relatives of a pregnant woman who died after being hit by a police car escorting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s motorcade accused Armenian authorities on Thursday of destroying evidence relevant to the case.
Ignoring objections from the Armenian Apostolic Church, archeologists and many other people, Armenia’s government has allowed a wealthy businessman to erect a giant statue of Jesus Christ on a mountain near Yerevan.
An Armenian human rights lawyer on Thursday accused Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian of grossly understating the number of Armenian prisoners of war and other captives still held by Azerbaijan.
Armenian law-enforcement authorities have opened more than a dozen criminal cases against participants of daily opposition demonstrations aimed at forcing Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian to resign.
Senior pro-government lawmakers on Thursday urged the Armenian military to call up men participating in continuing opposition demonstrations aimed at forcing Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian to resign.
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