Asia Azerbaijan Within the framework of the Individual Partnership Cooperation Programme 2024 between the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence and NATO, a 'Training and Exercise Course' was conducted by the NATO Joint Force Command's Mobile Training Team
Asia Azerbaijan The Vatican Secretary for Relations with States and International Organizations concluded his official visit to Azerbaijan -13 to 16 December- where his blessed the site and lay the foundation stone of a church dedicated to Saint John Paul II in Baku
Asia Azerbaijan Another 48 families were relocated to the country’s liberated Shusha city as part of the Great Return State Program; around 30.000 people now live in Karabakh and Eastern Zangezur, mainly former internally displaced persons and workers in various sectors
Asia Azerbaijan Azerbaijani authorities waged a deliberate ethnic cleansing campaign to empty Nagorno Karabakh of its 100.000 Armenians during the full takeover of the territory in September 2023, reads a report based on a fact-finding mission by watchdog Freedom House
Asia Azerbaijan Azerbaijan's role as COP29 host has come under intense scrutiny, as environmental activists, transparency groups and political observers have raised concerns about potential conflicts of interest for ties with oil and gas industry