Authorities spoke of “terrorist act” with reference to the gunman attack to the Azerbaijan embassy in Tehran that killed the Head of Security, while Iranian officials blamed the assault on “personal motivations”

After several negotiation attempts to reach a peace agreement, two recent landmine incidents led to an armed offensive in Nagorno Karabakh by which Azerbaijan seems to have regained control of the separatist region

Trucks loaded with humanitarian aid have entered the Azerbaijani separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh after Armenian separatists and the central government reached an agreement

Land borders are kept closed for passenger traffic, citing the pandemic as a continuing threat

The country adopted the Law on Space Activities, consisting of six chapters and 24 articles, on 4 August 2023, thus regulating the legal, economic and organisational basis of space activity