Baku, Azerbaijan- AFP Azerbaijan has detained an ex-president of its recently captured separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh, which agreed to reintegrate with Azerbaijan in the wake of Baku’s lightning offensive last month. Earlier on Wednesday, Armenia’s foreign ministry “strongly condemned” Azerbaijan for arresting se...
KARABAKH, Azerbaijan – Azerbaijan Interior Ministry on Monday shared footage of an 17th century mosque desecrated under Armenian occupation. After local anti-terrorism measures carried out in the Karabakh region of Azerbaijan, during an inspection of the territories, further facts of desecration of mosques by Armenian forces have been re...
MOSCOW (AA) – The Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry has said that 192 of its troops were killed and 511 were injured during counter-terrorism measures in Karabakh last week. The ministry said in a statement posted on its website that there were also two civilian casualties, with one person killed and another injured. Separately, the Azerbaijani Def...
Lachin Corridor, Azerbaijan – AFP Thousands more Armenians left Nagorno-Karabakh as officials in Azerbaijan’s war-scarred separatist statelet raised the death toll from a fuel blast to 20. The number of deaths from Monday’s fuel depot blast threatened to grow much higher because dozens were being treated in critical condition...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – A massive ammunition depot was found in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul, says the Taliban administration. Khalid Zadran, a spokesman for Kabul police, said that a huge cache of heavy and light weapons and ammunition was recovered during the construction of a road in Kabul. An old weapons depot was discovered during the const...
BELGRADE, Serbia (AA) – Police in Montenegro arrested a former Serbian soldier Monday who had been sought by the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) through the Interpol on the grounds that he committed war crimes during the Kosovo conflict. Law enforcement officials said the 61-year-old man was apprehended af...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Sudan’s army chief Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan has given conditional approval for holding negotiations with his rival Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, head of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group. Burhan said in an interview with the BBC that he would sit down with Dagalo as long as he abided by commitments to […]
Shusha, Azerbaijan – AFP Azerbaijan forces tightened their grip on the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh on Saturday as international concern mounted over the plight of ethnic Armenian civilians trapped there. As the first Red Cross aid convoy crossed into the disputed enclave since Azerbaijan launched this week’s lightning offe...
NEW YORK (AA) – Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, head of the Sovereign Council of Sudan, met UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Karim Khan on Saturday in New York. Burhan, in his meeting with Guterres, said the government is ready to collaborate with the UN on all matters […]...
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AA) – The US has reiterated its call for Sudan’s warring rivals to end their “brutal conflict” and allow Sudanese people to live in peace. “The warring parties must end this brutal conflict,”c, assistant State Secretary, told Sudan’s army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan during a meeting on the sideli...