Almost seventeen years ago, in December 2008, I worked with a film crew shooting a documentary on the Armenia and Azerbaijan conflict for Al Jazeera English.

The fourth European Conference on Azerbaijani Studies was held in Vienna, Austria, on 5 December, by the European Network for Azerbaijani Studies and the Strategic Consultancy Group.

Armenia and Azerbaijan progress toward normalization: a near-final agreement, growing political and civil dialogue, border talks and renewed exchanges. Internal opposition persists, but signs of lasti...

Հայաստանի անվտանգության խորհրդի քարտուղար Արմեն Գրիգորյանը դեկտեմբերի 5-ին աշխատանքային այցով կմեկնի Կատարի մայրաքաղաք Դոհա: ԱԽ գրասենյակի փոխանցմամբ՝ Գրիգորյանը «Դոհա ֆորում»-ի շրջանակներում Ադրբեջան...

As the year comes to an end, a new initiative bringing civil society actors and regional analysts from Armenia and Azerbaijan together is steadily gaining ground.

Armenians pride themselves on adopting Christianity as their national religion as early as 301 AD. It has become an almost unassailable feature of their identity as a people despite a history stretchi...

On October 21, 2025, an Azerbaijani Airlines (AZAL) Gulfstream G650, call sign 4K-ASG, touched down at Yerevan’s Zvartnots Airport. It was a historic event, commented many.

The prospect of peace in the South Caucasus may finally be within reach. Following the high-profile meeting between Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev at th...

Armenian Minister of Economy, Gevorg Papoyan, said that the first transit shipment of goods through Azerbaijani territory is expected to reach Armenia soon.He made the...

Yesterday marked the fourth anniversary of the untimely passing of Armenian theatrical director turned peace activist Georgi Vanyan. He was 58.

Executive Summary: The U.S.-brokered Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity (TRIPP), which would connect Azerbaijan to its Nakhchivan exclave through Armenia, has accelerated Armenia–Azerb...

Eurasianet last week published a piece on what we anyway knew were long-standing disagreements over the construction of a new highway that would connect Azerbaijan with Nakhichevan via Armenia as dict...

Under the watchful eyes of the United States and Russia, Armenia and Turkey have finally signed two protocols which many hope will see the normalization of relations between the two neighbouring count...

“Welcome to Armenia,” the pilot’s voice came over the tannoy as the Turkish Atlasjet flight touched down in Yerevan some time in 2011. “The temperature outsider is…” A normal announcement on any fligh...

After meetings between Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Türkiye, optimism is growing for a peace treaty by 2026. Yerevan hopes to reopen its border with Ankara. Pashinyan is aiming for concrete results to…

Turkish Airlines (THY) has announced the launch of regular flights to Timisoara, Romania, and Yerevan, Armenia, TRT Haber reports, citing the airline's...

This Saturday marks the fifth anniversary of the Second Karabakh War. To be honest, and personally speaking, it had always seemed the continuation of the first waged between Armenia and Azerbaijan in ...

The prospect of peace in the South Caucasus may finally be within reach. Following the high-profile meeting between Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev at th...

Armenia’s Soviet-era past, U.S. technological know-how, and a globally connected diaspora are converging to give the small, landlocked republic a rare chance to leapfrog into the next phase of digital...

Next year’s parliamentary elections in Armenia will not focus on the economy or other domestic issues, but rather on the country’s place in the surrounding region and relations with its neighbours. Pr...

“You must be glad to be here,” the bartender told my friend, a journalist for a major international media outlet just arrived that evening in Yerevan from Baku via Tbilisi. He raised an eyebrow in res...

Սպիտակ տանը տեղի ունեցած գագաթնաժողովը շրջադարձային է...

Last week, the ethnic Azerbaijani community of Georgia celebrated the annual Novruz festival, the coming of Spring. Photos and texts by Onnik James Krikorian

Executive Summary:  Armenia and Azerbaijan have finalized the text of a long-awaited “Agreement on Peace and Establishment of Interstate Relations.” The announcement came unexpectedly from Baku and wa...

In less than two months the Eurovision Song Contest will be held once more, this time in Switzerland. The competition, established by the European Broadcast Union in 1956, has many detractors but also...

Speaking to media on the sidelines of the Global Baku Forum, Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov unexpectedly announced that the text of the Agreement on Peace and Establishment of Interstate Relations b...

Հայաստանի արտաքին գործերի նախարարությունը հաստատել է Ադրբեջանի արտաքին գործերի նախարար Ջեյհուն Բայրամովի հայտարարությունը, թե Հայաստանը համաձայնություն է...

Upon visiting Karabakh in 1994, there were two possible routes for my return to Yerevan. The first was the same way I arrived by military helicopter, and the second was by road. With no highway in pla...

Even though many believed a second Trump presidency was unlikely or even impossible, his re-election last November demonstrated how many people prefer to favour dreams over reality, transforming fears...

Executive Summary: The Charter of Strategic Partnership between Armenia and the United States, signed in January 2024 under the then-outgoing administration, aligns with Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan...

When Nikol Pashinyan embarked on a march from Gyumri to Yerevan at the end of March 2018 to prevent then President Serzh Sargsyan from clinging onto power, few believed he would succeed. Pashinyan was...

Armenian passport control at the Bagratashen border checkpoint was confused and chaotic, quite unlike the experience on the other side at Sadakhlo in Georgia. Instead of the few minutes it should have...

Il primo ministro armeno Nikol Pashinyan e il presidente azerbaijano Ilham Aliyev hanno partecipato al World Economic Forum di Davos del mese scorso. Non ci sono però informazioni su un loro…

In Georgia, the Azeri community celebrates Novruz like in Azerbaijan, but in the village of Sartichala-Mughanlo, the celebration takes a unique turn: costumes, fires and a fundraiser for the community

L'Armenia è entrata nell'anno pre-elettorale con tutto da giocare. Nonostante il sostegno in costante calo, il primo ministro Nikol Pashinyan potrebbe beneficiare di un nuovo, involontario alleato:…