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Armenia has agreed to ‘historic’ return of four villages along shared border, Azerbaijan says
This photograph taken at the Lachin checkpoint, on September 26, 2023, shows an Azerbaijan flag. Hundreds of vehicles were heading to Armenia from Nagorno-Karabakh on September 26, 2023, following 's lightning offensive against the separatist enclave, an AFP team at the scene said. The flow of vehicles was continuous, with families piling their belonging on top of their cars and stopping only a few seconds at the last Azerbaijani checkpoint before entering Armenia along the so-called Lachin Corridor, AFP reporters said. (Photo by EMMANUEL DUNAND / AFP) (Photo by EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP via Getty Images)
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Russia begins withdrawing peacekeeping forces from Karabakh region
FILE - Russian peacekeepers' vehicles are parked at a checkpoint on the road to Shusha in the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh, on Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2020. President Vladimir Putin's spokesman said Wednesday April 17, 2024 that Russian forces are being withdrawn from Azerbaijan's Karabakh region, where they have been stationed as peacekeepers since the end of a war in 2020. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits, File)
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Armenia’s PM says quick border demarcation needed to avoid new conflict with Azerbaijan
Armenia's Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan speaks during joint statements with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg after their meeting in Yerevan, Armenia, Tuesday, March 19, 2024. (Stepan Poghosyan/Photolure via AP)
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Azerbaijan’s Aliyev officially wins by landslide in election monitors say was restrictive
Azerbaijan's incumbent President and a candidate for ongoing Azeri presidential elections Ilham Aliyev walks out of a polling station after voting in Khankendi city, also known as Stepanakert by Armenia, following an Azeri military operation and a further mass exodus of ethnic Armenians from the region of Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijan, February 7, 2024. Official website of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES. MANDATORY CREDIT.
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European monitor says Azerbaijan’s election took place in a restrictive environment
Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev casts his ballot during presidential election at a polling station in Khankendi, Karabakh region, Azerbaijan, Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2024. Azerbaijanis are voting Wednesday in an election almost certain to see incumbent President Ilham Aliyev chosen to serve another seven-year term. (Vugar Amrullaev/Azerbaijan State News Agency AZERTAC via AP)
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Preliminary results show Azerbaijan’s president has been re-elected
In this handout picture released by Azerbaijan's presidency, Azeri President and presidential candidate Ilham Aliyev casts his ballot at a polling station during Azerbaijani snap presidential election, in the city of Khankendi in the Karabakh region on February 7, 2024. (Photo by Handout / Azerbaijani presidency / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / Azerbaijani presidency" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS (Photo by HANDOUT/Azerbaijani presidency/AFP via Getty Images)
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COP28: The highs and lows so far as the climate event goes into its final, frenetic days
Eric Reguly
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Azerbaijan tipped to host COP29 climate talks
A person walks out of the Azerbaijan Pavilion at the COP28 U.N. Climate Summit, Friday, Dec. 8, 2023, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
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Armenia and Azerbaijan announce deal to exchange POWs and work toward peace treaty
FILE - Ethnic Armenians flee Nagorno-Karabakh to Kornidzor, in Armenia's Syunik region, Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2023. Armenia and Azerbaijan have agreed to exchange prisoners of war and work toward signing a peace treaty in what the European Union is hailing as a major step toward peace in the long-troubled region. The two countries said in a joint statement Thursday, Dec. 7, 2023 that they “share the view that there is a historical chance to achieve a long-awaited peace.” (AP Photo/Vasily Krestyaninov, File)
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Azerbaijan summons Western envoys over support for arrested journalists
This photograph taken at the Lachin checkpoint, on September 26, 2023, shows an Azerbaijan flag. Hundreds of vehicles were heading to Armenia from Nagorno-Karabakh on September 26, 2023, following 's lightning offensive against the separatist enclave, an AFP team at the scene said. The flow of vehicles was continuous, with families piling their belonging on top of their cars and stopping only a few seconds at the last Azerbaijani checkpoint before entering Armenia along the so-called Lachin Corridor, AFP reporters said. (Photo by EMMANUEL DUNAND / AFP) (Photo by EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP via Getty Images)
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World Court says Azerbaijan must let ethnic Armenians return to Nagorno-Karabakh
The logo of the International Court of Justice, left, and that of the U.N., right, are seen on the judges bench as preliminary hearings opened in a case in which Armenia is asking judges at the United Nations' top court to order Azerbaijan to protect the rights of ethnic Armenians from the Nagorno-Karabakh region that was reclaimed last month by Azerbaijan, at the International Court of Justice, or World Court, in The Hague, Netherlands, Thursday, Oct. 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
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Azerbaijan holds first joint drills with Turkey since retaking Nagorno-Karabakh region
This photograph taken at the Lachin checkpoint, on September 26, 2023, shows an Azerbaijan flag. Hundreds of vehicles were heading to Armenia from Nagorno-Karabakh on September 26, 2023, following 's lightning offensive against the separatist enclave, an AFP team at the scene said. The flow of vehicles was continuous, with families piling their belonging on top of their cars and stopping only a few seconds at the last Azerbaijani checkpoint before entering Armenia along the so-called Lachin Corridor, AFP reporters said. (Photo by EMMANUEL DUNAND / AFP) (Photo by EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP via Getty Images)
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Azerbaijan’s president raises the nation’s flag in a former breakaway region’s capital
Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev attends the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) meeting in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, on Friday, Oct. 13, 2023. (Pavel Bednyakov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
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Israeli arms quietly helped Azerbaijan retake Nagorno-Karabakh, to the dismay of region’s Armenians
A video grab made on September 20, 2023 from footage released by the Nagorno-Karabakh Foreign Ministry shows wreckages littering a street around damaged cars in Stepanakert, on the first day of Azerbaijan's renewed offensive on the region. Karabakh authorities claimed 25 people, including two civilians, were killed in the fighting, while Azerbaijan warned it would "continue until the end" in the territory. (Photo by Nagorno-Karabakh Foreign Ministry / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO /NAGORNO-KARABAKH FOREIGN MINISTRY " - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS (Photo by -/Nagorno-Karabakh Foreign Ministr/AFP via Getty Images)
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After the ethnic cleansing of Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijan is eyeing Armenia itself
Neil Hauer
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Azerbaijan moves to reaffirm control of Nagorno-Karabakh as the Armenian exodus slows to a trickle
This photograph taken on October 1, 2023 during an Azeri government organized media trip shows Armenians, who are fleeing Nagorno-Karabakh, boarding a bus for Armenia in the village of Lissagorsk in the territories of the breakaway region Azerbaijan retook from Armenia after a one-day Azeri offensive last week. (Photo by Emmanuel Dunand / AFP) (Photo by EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP via Getty Images)
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Azerbaijan issues arrest warrant for former separatist Nagorno-Karabakh leader
A soldier walks past a destroyed house in a residential area that was hit by rocket fire overnight by Armenian forces, early Saturday, Oct. 17, 2020, in Ganja, Azerbaijan's second largest city, near the border with Armenia. Azerbaijan has accused Armenia of striking its second-largest city with a ballistic missile that killed at least 13 civilians and wounded 50 others in a new escalation of their conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh. (AP Photo/Aziz Karimov)
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Almost all of Nagorno-Karabakh’s people have left, Armenia’s government says
Ethnic Armenian family from Nagorno-Karabakh are helped to leave a truck with their belongings after arriving to Armenia's Goris in Syunik region, Armenia, on Saturday, Sept. 30, 2023. Armenian officials say that by Friday evening over 97,700 people had left Nagorno-Karabakh. The region's population was around 120,000 before the exodus began. (AP Photo/Vasily Krestyaninov)
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UN mission to visit Karabakh after military offensive
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More than 80% of Nagorno-Karabakh’s population flees as future uncertain for those who remain
Refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh region arrive in the border village of Kornidzor, Armenia, September 29, 2023. REUTERS/Irakli Gedenidze