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Azerbaijan handed over 15 captured Armenian soldiers in exchange for land mine maps, the two countries’ foreign ministries said on July 3.
Acting Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has cemented his position with a landslide election victory.
International observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) have concluded that the Armenia's early parliamentary elections were competitive and generally well-managed.
Daniel Ioannisian, an independent election observer, told RFE/RL that there were numerous incidents of vote-buying and other illegal attempts to influence the June 20 parliamentary election. Ioannisian said the cases have been forwarded to law enforcement bodies.
Journalists in Armenia's capital, Yerevan, closely followed the country's leading political figures as they cast ballots in early parliamentary elections on June 20. Prime Minister Pashinian called the polls in reaction to discontent over a cease-fire he accepted after fighting with Azerbaijan.
Thousands of supporters of former President Robert Kocharian’s opposition Armenia Alliance have rallied in the center of Yerevan ahead of snap general elections this weekend.
Thousands of supporters of Armenian caretaker Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian have gathered in the center of the capital for his last campaign rally ahead of early parliamentary elections this weekend.
An Armenian court has sentenced a nephew of former President Serzh Sarkisian to 5 1/2 years in prison on charges of illegal obtaining ammunition for a pistol and illegal drug possession.
Azerbaijan said it has handed over 15 Armenian prisoners of war in exchange for a map showing the location of land mines in part of the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region.
A senior U.S. diplomat has voiced concern over the lack of progress in the release of prisoners of war following the 2020 conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
Armenia's National Security Service says it has arrested two men on suspicion of spying for Azerbaijan, with which Yerevan recently fought a war over the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh.
French President Emmanuel Macron has urged Azerbaijan to withdraw its troops from “the sovereign territory of Armenia" after a series of recent border incidents between the two South Caucasus countries heightened regional tensions.
Azerbaijan says one of its soldiers was wounded after Armenian forces opened fire along the two South Caucasus neighbors' border, an accusation Yerevan rejects.
Azerbaijani forces have captured six Armenian servicemen amid growing border tensions between the two South Caucasus neighbors after last year's war over the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region.
Azerbaijan and neighboring Armenia have blamed each other for a border shoot-out that Yerevan says claimed the life of one of its soldiers.
An Armenian soldier was killed on May 25 in a border shootout with Azerbaijani forces, the Armenian Defense Ministry said, amid tensions after last year's war over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region.
Russia says it has proposed setting up a joint commission to demarcate the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan, amid renewed Yerevan-Baku tensions over the past week over an alleged Azerbaijani military incursion.
Armenia has formally appealed to the Russian-led Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) to hold consultations on its border dispute with Azerbaijan that has emerged months after the two countries ended a war over the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Armenia's caretaker Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has accused Azerbaijani troops of crossing the southern border and trying to stake claim to territory.
Armenia's parliament failed to elect a prime minister for the second time on May 10, triggering its own dissolution in a final move toward early elections next month.
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