Since Azerbaijani forces took over the disputed region of Nagorno Karabakh, approximately 100,000 ethnic Armenians have left the region. As long as negotiations between Armenia and Azerbaijan continue, many of them who are now living in Armenia are hoping to return.
With a floral float in the annual Rose Parade, Armenian Americans in Southern California celebrated their culture and moving on from a traumatic year that saw the excodus of Armenians from their former enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh inside the borders of Azerbaijan.
Turkey’s border with Armenia may soon reopen after more than 30 years following Azerbaijan’s recapture of the Nagorno-Karabakh area from ethnic Armenians.
With more than half of the population of the enclave evacuated since Monday, thousands of refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh continue to cross into Armenia. According to new arrivals, 100 kilometres behind them, the roads are packed.
This week, at least 50,000 people have fled into Armenia from their homes in Nagorno-Karabagh. The exodus comes after the long-running conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan appears to have ended swiftly in Baku’s favor.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan Has Called For Reconciliation After Winning A Snap Election Held In The Wake Of The Country’s Defeat In A Conflict With Azerbaijan
Armenia is in the midst of a political crisis amid calls for Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian to step down. After top military officers called for him to resign, Pashinian described the move as “an attempted coup.”
Scores of people were seen leaving the war-torn Nagorno-Karabakh region for Armenia’s capital, Yerevan, on November 11. The road they were taking passes through Kalbacar, a corridor formerly held by Armenia
Groups of jubilant people were seen in the streets of the Azerbaijani capital, Baku, on November 8 after President Ilham Aliyev announced that Azerbaijan had seized control of a key city in the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region
An RFE/RL crew filming damage sustained in the Nagorno-Karabakh city of Martakert were forced to take cover for over an hour as shelling broke out in the area, November 2