The Latest Breaking News from Armenia

Nearly 45,000 flee after lightning military offensive by Azerbaijan in breakaway region

Ruben Vardanyan detained as he tried to cross into Armenia in first high-profile arrest since Azerbaijani offensive

The United States’ top humanitarian aid representative, Samantha Power, was dispatched on a fact-finding mission on Sept. 26, 2023, to a registration point on the border with Armenia for those fleeing the Armenian-populated enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh. What she found was frustration: “Sanction Azerbaijan or go back to your country! We…

Armenia said Wednesday that more than a third of Nagorno-Karabakh's population has fled the enclave since Azerbaijan crushed the rebels' decades-long fight for an independent state last week.

Armenia says 42,500 people have arrived, fearing their rights and security will not be protected in Azerbaijan.

Death toll from fuel depot explosion on Monday rises to 68 as ethnic Armenians raise concerns about reprisals from Azerbaijan

Armenia said on Wednesday it had received 50,243 Nagorno-Karabakh refugees since Azerbaijan’s lightning offensive, representing more than a third of the separatist ethnic Armenian enclave’s population.

Are we witnessing the final act in a decades-old conflict, or the start of a new chapter of hardship and strife? Ethnic Armenians are fleeing Nagorno-Karabakh by the thousands after last week's lightning-fast capture of that enclave. They are dismissing guarantees for their safety by Azerbaijan's president, in part because…

In today’s newsletter: An estimated 120,000 ethnic Armenians may be displaced by conflict with Azerbaijan – how did we get here, and what will happen now?

More than 28,000 refugees have fled Nagorno-Karabakh, a majority ethnic Armenian breakaway enclave defeated in a lightning offensive by Azerbaijan last week, Armenia said on Tuesday.

Twenty killed and 290 injured in fuel explosion as refugees flee in trucks, cars and even tractors