MOSCOW (AP) — President Vladimir Putin‘s spokesman said Wednesday that Russian forces are being withdrawn from Azerbaijan’s Karabakh region, where they have been stationed as peacekeepers since the end of a war in 2020. In a conference call with journalists, Dmitry Peskov confirmed reports of the withdrawal but did not give further details. The Karabakh […]
STORY: The televised demolition, with giant metal claws tearing at the masonry of the gutted edifice, demonstratively underlined the restoration of control by Azerbaijan since its forces recaptured Karabakh last year and more than 100,000 ethnic Armenians fled. The region had previously been de facto independent of Baku since a war that spanned the collapse […]
BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) — The Ukrainian and Russian presidents congratulated Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev after his expected landslide win as preliminary results released Thursday indicated his resounding victory in the presidential election held the day before. Aliyev had called an early vote just months after his forces swiftly reclaimed the Karabakh region from ethnic Armenian […]