A billionaire former banker and 15 other ex-officials in the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region which Azerbaijan retook in 2023 went on trial on Friday in Baku in closed-door proceedings. The most prominent of the defendants,

Russia’s president is said to have blamed birds or a Ukrainian drone for a Dec. 25 crash of an Azerbaijani plane. Azerbaijan says Russian air defenses were at fault.

Human Rights advocate Luis Moreno Ocampo published a new blog post comparing political tactics being used by President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan to those used by the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin.

Azerbaijan has refused to renew its cooperation agreement with The United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov said on Thursday, accusing Washington of using USAID to pursue its political agenda.

BAKU, Azerbaijan, January 18. In accordance with the training plan for 2025, practical classes were conducted during training sessions held as part of joint actions with the State Service for Mobilization and Conscription, Trend reports via the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry.

Azerbaijan Airlines flight J2-8243 was traveling from the Azerbaijani capital Baku to Grozny, but was forced to make an emergency landing in Kazakhstan on Christmas Day. Thirty-eight of the 67 people on board died in the crash. “I can confidently say ...

Axel Fischer and Eduard Lintner, former Bundestag deputies, were members of the German delegation to the international human rights organization to which Azerbaijan belongs. Both were implicated in the so-called Azerbaijani Laundromat —a Europe-wide lobbying and money-laundering scheme uncovered by OCCRP in 2017.

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BAKU, Jan 6 (Reuters) - French citizen Martin Ryan went on trial in Azerbaijan on Monday on spying charges that the judge said could lead to a prison sentence of 10 to 15 years. Azerbaijan accuses Ryan, who was arrested in December 2023, of collecting ...

Armenia’s government pointedly declined to react on Friday to the start of the trials in Azerbaijan of eight former leaders of Nagorno-Karabakh and eight other Karabakh Armenian prisoners which human rights activists in Yerevan condemned as a travesty of justice.

A case of mpox has been found in Azerbaijan, Interfax news agency reported on Saturday, adding that the patient had been isolated and was receiving treatment in hospital. Interfax quoted Azerbaijan's Ministry of Health and Management Union of Medical Territorial Units (TABIB) as saying the patient was a 22-year-old citizen of Azerbaijan who had been on a tourist trip abroad from Jan.

A former top official in the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh protested on the eve of his trial before an Azerbaijani military court on Friday that he had not been given enough time to prepare his defence on 42 charges including terrorism.