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Vardanyan was a leader of the separatist movement in Karabakh, and an enemy of Ukraine with Iranian ties - Click the link for more details.

The destruction of Nagorno-Karabakh shows that the West has again failed to stand up to international aggression

It happened quickly, the final invasion, and with hundreds of Orthodox Christians killed by the aggressors. Armenia, led by a one-time human rights lawyer, had no alternative but to save thousands of its people from death by surrendering their enclave at Nagorno-Karabakh to the brutal forces of Ilham Aliyev, dictator of Azerbaijan.

(): More than 70 per cent of Nagorno-Karabakh’s original population has fled to Armenia, authorities said, as the region’s separatist government said it would dissolve itself, and the unrecognised republic inside Azerbaijan would cease to exist by year’s end after a three-decade bid for

UN mission arrives in Karabakh at the end of the week. UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said the mission team would seek to assess the situation on the ground, identify the humanitarian needs of both those remaining and leaving. Azerbaijani police began deploying in the city of Stepanakert, the capital of Nagorno-Karabakh, to fill the vacuum caused by the absence of the Karabik authorities. Armenian separatists in the region announced on Thursday the dissolution of what they call the self-proclaim...

Nagorno-Karabakh - recognised as part of Azerbaijan - had been run by ethnic Armenians for three decades.

Armenia says more than 100,000 people have fled Nagorno-Karabakh since Azerbaijan's seizure of that breakaway territory a little over a week ago, while Yerevan has appealed to a UN court to stop Baku from allegedly targeting ethnic Armenians there.

Almost the entire ethnic Armenian population has fled the region since Azerbaijan seized it last week.

From the dusty mountainous border of Nagorno Karabakh, as more than 100,000 Armenians flee their homeland, Bel Trew reports on the plight of the people who believe the world has abandoned them

Armenia announced that almost the entire population of Nagorno-Karabakh, a breakaway territory, had fled after Azerbaijan regained control. The sudden exodus has changed the ethnic makeup of the disputed region. Azerbaijan denies claims of ethnic cleansing and has called on Armenian residents to reintegrate into Azerbaijan. The United Nations will send a mission to assess humanitarian needs, and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies has appealed for $22 million to ...