Saudi Arabia executes 99th person in 2016 to surpass last year’s record
Saudi Arabia has executed its 99th person this year, continuing the trend to more death penalties yearly in the Kingdom, The Independent reports. The conservative country,…
Search results Armenian
Armenia standoff: Last four police hostages released
Armed men, who had once held nine police officers hostage in Armenia’s capital Yerevan, have released all four remaining captives, a mediator between the assailants…
Scores injured in Armenia clashes as police station hostage crisis continues in capital
Around 45 people have been injured as clashes breakout in the Armenian capital Yerevan between police and protesters outside a police station that was seized…
Eastern Turkey frozen by conflict and ignored by Ankara
While Turkey’s major cities and the Anatolian heartland have reaped the fruits of more than a decade of major government investment, the predominantly Kurdish-populated eastern…
UNESCO Announces 4 New World Heritage Sites
Four new sites made it to the World Heritage list of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The new sites, announced Friday,…
Iran is concerned about the negotiations on Karabakh
“According to diplomatic sources, at this stage, Iran is very concerned about the ongoing Karabakh negotiations. It is known that after the April war, unprecedented…
Lavrov hopes there will now be less disagreements on Syria with Turkey
The normalization of relations between Turkey and Russia will help both countries find effective new ways to solve the Syrian crisis, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei…
Date of Iran, Russia, Azerbaijan Presidents’ meeting to be decided soon
The Russian side confirms the plans to hold a meeting of the leaders of Russia, Iran and Azerbaijan in the short run, Russian Foreign Minister…
Azerbaijan has developed its own combat drone
Tests of unmanned aerial vehicle «Zərbə» (Strike), developed in a short time, were successful, and in the near future, the unit will be transferred to…
Sinan Baykent: Armenia is trying to achieve the status quo ante of the Lausanne Treaty which gave Turkey its independence
The events of 1915 in the Ottoman Empire are perceived as a “genocide” by certain academic and political circles. Turkey rejects such an interpretation of…