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Nagorno-Karabakh

The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is a long-running ethnic and territorial dispute between Armenia and Azerbaijan, in the South Caucasus region between Europe and Asia. The latest bout of fighting erupted in mid-September.

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Bagrat Galstanyan addresses the crowd of supporters in Yerevan on May 26

Armenia: Archbishop challenges Pashinyan and Azerbaijan deal

Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan is leading the protests against Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.
ConflictsMay 27, 2024
People are seen during a protest in Republic Square calling for the resignation of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on May 9, 2024

Armenia detains scores of Azerbaijan land deal protesters

Police in Armenia detain dozens of protesters angry at plans to hand over land to Azerbaijan.
PoliticsMay 13, 2024
Khanum Tamrazyan, Armenian villager in the Tavush province in Northern Armenia, points in the direction of the Armenian-Azerbaijani border, which can be seen in the background.

Armenians fear plan to return land to Azerbaijan

The return of several enclaves is being hailed as a step toward peace. DW met Armenian locals who are angry and worried.
ConflictsMay 2, 202404:49 min
Vehicles of Russian peacekeepers leaving Azerbaijan's Nagorno-Karabakh region for Armenia pass an Armenian checkpoint on a road near the village of Kornidzor, Armeni

Russia withdrawing from Nagorno-Karabakh, Kremlin says

The conflict last year saw Azerbaijan recapture Nagorno-Karabakh and the mass explusion of ethnic Armenians.
ConflictsApril 17, 2024
DW Podcast | Inside Europe | provisorisch f ROAD

Inside Europe 28 March 2024

Will Putin use the Moscow attack to further tighten his grip? Could a pro-western candidate win Slovakia's presidential election? And the refugee crisis in Europe that no one is talking about. Also: A secret recording hints at more corruption in Hungary's government, is it 'Time's up' for Spain's late-night bar culture? and 100-year-old Dutch prisons are remodeled for the 21st century.
PoliticsMarch 28, 202454:59 min
Soldiers walk in a trench at a border check point between Armenia and Azerbaijan

Armenia says Azerbaijan killed 4 soldiers, amid peace talks

Both countries are blaming each other for the most serious incident since they renewed their attempts at peace.
ConflictsFebruary 13, 2024
Azeri President and presidential candidate Ilham Aliyev casts his ballot at a polling station during the Azerbaijani snap presidential election

Azerbaijan election: President Ilham Aliyev wins fifth term

Following the recapture of Nagorno-Karabakh in September, the result was a predictable landslide.
PoliticsFebruary 8, 2024
Türkei | Viele Erdbebenopfer fühlen sich allein gelassen

Focus on Europe — Spotlight on People

In Turkey, many are still living in emergency shelters after the devastating earthquake a year ago.
SocietyFebruary 1, 202426:04 min
Leaders of Azerbaijan and Armenia sit at a round table with the president of France during talks in Prague

Azerbaijan expels French diplomats amid Armenia tensions

The Foreign Ministry in Baku summoned the French ambassador and asked two diplomats to leave, but they did not say why.
PoliticsDecember 26, 2023
Two children play in the dirt while behind them a long line of cars laden with goods are in a traffic jam

Refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh adjust to life in Armenia

The 100,000 people who fled to Armenia from Nagorno-Karabakh are trying to reorient themselves far from home.
ConflictsDecember 4, 202305:53 min
Armenien Geflüchtete Berg-Karabach Aserbaidschan

Focus on Europe - Spotlight on People

The 100,000 people who fled to Armenia from Nagorno-Karabakh are trying to reorient themselves far from home.
SocietyNovember 30, 202326:05 min
The Gevorgyan family, who fled Nagorno-Karabakh, sits around a table.

Nagorno-Karabakh refugees struggling in Armenia

More than 100,000 ethnic Armenians have left their homes in Nagorno-Karabakh and fled to an uncertain future.
ConflictsNovember 29, 202303:44 min
Annalena Baerbock

German FM calls for new Armenia-Azerbaijan peace talks

Germany's foreign minister, Annalena Baerbock, was in Armenia to discuss tensions in the Nagorno-Karabakh region.
PoliticsNovember 3, 2023
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Nagorno-Karabakh conflict explained

Azerbaijan's offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh saw the region cease to exist. DW explains the conflict's background.
ConflictsOctober 13, 202301:48 min
DW Podcast | Inside Europe | provisorisch f ROAD

Inside Europe - 5 October 2023

Ukraine war fatigue helps a pro-Putin politician to victory in Slovakia, will Europe step to fill the US gap in military aid to Kyiv? As Nagorno Karabakh prepares for dissolution, what role did Turkish drones play in Baku's victory? Also: women in Greenland demand compensation over a birth control scandal and as a major Dutch gas field closes, many residents say 'Good riddance.'
PoliticsOctober 5, 202354:59 min
Refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh region sit in the back of a truck upon arrival in the border village of Kornidzor, Armenia

Armenia at a crossroads after Nagorno-Karabakh exodus

Following the Nagorno-Karabakh crisis, Armenia's geopolitical situation leaves no easy answers for the future.
ConflictsOctober 5, 202303:09 min
Arayik Harutyunyan, former leader of the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh, center, stands between Azerbaijani security service agents in Baku, Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan confirms arrest of Nagorno-Karabakh ex-president

Several former presidents of the ethnic Armenian separatist region have been detained by Azerbaijan.
ConflictsOctober 5, 2023
Three men in suits — Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev, EU Council President Charles Michel, and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan (l to r) — pose for a photo in Brussels in May 2023

Azerbaijan rejects Armenia talks over mistrust of EU, France

Azeri President Ilham Aliyev has declined to meet Armenian PM Nikol Pashinyan in Spain as part of EU-brokered talks.
PoliticsOctober 4, 2023
Refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh: Two women and a child sitting on a bench

Nagorno-Karabakh refugees seek new life in Armenia

Having fled in their tens of thousands, they're now facing an uncertain future. DW reports from the town of Dilijan.
ConflictsOctober 4, 202303:08 min
Armenien | Sitzung der Nationalversammlung in Eriwan

Armenia's vote to join ICC irks Russia

Armenia's parliament votes to join the Hague-based court in a move Russia has already said would be an unfriendly step.
PoliticsOctober 3, 2023
Refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh region arrive in the border village of Kornidzor, Armenia

Last bus leaves Nagorno-Karabakh, deadly clashes continue

A UN mission said it was struck by the "sudden manner" more than 100,000 people left the region over the past week.
ConflictsOctober 2, 2023
Two elderly residents of Stepanakert, the regional capital of Nagorno-Karabakh, sit inside a bus, waiting for it to leave the enclave.

UN delegation arrives in Nagorno-Karabakh after mass exodus

A UN delegation has arrived in Nagorno-Karabakh after much of the region's population fled.
ConflictsOctober 2, 202302:02 min
Ethnic Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh sit next to their belongings near a tent camp after arriving to Armenia's Goris in Syunik region, Armenia

Nagorno-Karabakh: Over 100,000 flee to Armenia

Most of the Armenian population of Nagorno-Karabakh have left Nagorno-Karabakh since Azarbaijan's offensive.
ConflictsSeptember 30, 2023
Police officers restrain an angry crowd

What's behind the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh?

The conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh goes back centuries. Here is an overview of its history.
PoliticsSeptember 29, 2023
A man on a hill watching vehicles driving on the Lachin Corridor in Azerbaijan as ethnic Armenian migrants try to get to Armenia

Nagorno-Karabakh mass exodus continues

An estimated two-thirds of Nagorno-Karabakh's population has already fled the former autonomous enclave in Azerbaijan.
ConflictsSeptember 29, 202303:17 min
Refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh are seen near a humanitarian aid center in Kornidzor.

Ethnic Armenians flee Nagorno-Karabakh

The leadership of the breakaway enclave has announced that it will cede control to Azerbaijan.
ConflictsSeptember 28, 202302:18 min
Cars and men against a mountainous backdrop

Nagorno-Karabakh's Armenians fleeing in dramatic escape

People are leaving however they can, cramped in cars, trucks and busses, many of them crying, hungry and traumatized.
ConflictsSeptember 28, 2023
DW Podcast | Inside Europe | provisorisch f ROAD

Inside Europe - 28 September 2023

The end of Nagorno-Karabakh, Greece’s Syriza party has a new leader, the race is on to find Montenegro’s laziest citizen, and in praise of all things coffee. Also on Inside Europe: The Guardian’s European Culture Editor, Philip Oltermann, kicks off a half hour of cultural programming.
PoliticsSeptember 28, 202355:00 min
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Nagorno-Karabakh to dissolve self-proclaimed republic

The self-declared state says it will formally cease to exist by January 2024.
ConflictsSeptember 28, 202301:42 min
People on the back of a truck, fleeing Nagorno-Karabakh

Nagorno-Karabakh: Ethnic Armenians leave homes, lives behind

Ethnic Armenians fleeing Nagorno-Karabakh have little hope they will be able to return to their homeland.
ConflictsSeptember 27, 202302:16 min
Refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh region in the back of a truck take out their passport upon arrival in the border village of Kornidzor.

Ethnic Armenian exodus from Nagorno-Karabakh swells

Almost a quarter of the ethnic Armenian population of Nagorno-Karabakh has fled to Armenia.
ConflictsSeptember 27, 202302:26 min
Hikmet Hajiyev

Armenians leaving "in a free manner": Azerbaijan official

Azerbaijan is not forcing anyone to leave, says Azerbaijani Foreign Policy Adviser Hikmet Hajiyev.
ConflictsSeptember 26, 202303:42 min
Smoke rises from an explosion outside Stepanakert.

Nagorno-Karabakh explosion kills at least 20

At least 20 people have been killed and nearly 300 injured by an explosion at a gas station in Nagorno-Karabakh.
ConflictsSeptember 26, 202302:42 min
Flames over fuel depot in Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijan

Nagorno-Karabakh: Several killed in fuel blast

At least 20 people died and more than 200 injured in the explosion, officials said.
ConflictsSeptember 26, 2023
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is welcomed by Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev upon his arrival at Nakhchivan International Airport

Erdogan visits Azerbaijan after Nagorno-Karabakh cease-fire

The meeting comes days after Azerbaijan seized control of the separatist enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh.
PoliticsSeptember 25, 2023
An elderly woman and children sit on bags of belongings as residents gather in central Stepanakert to leave Nagorno-Karabakh, a region inhabited by ethnic Armenians, September 25

Ethnic Armenians flee Nagorno-Karabakh

Fearing revenge from Azerbaijan, ethnic Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh began a mass exodus.
ConflictsSeptember 25, 2023
A man photographs Stepanakert, the largest city in Nagorno-Karabakh, from a mountain.

Armenia calls for UN mission to Nagorno-Karabakh

Azerbaijan has been tightening its grip on Nagorno-Karabakh since its lightning military offensive.
ConflictsSeptember 24, 202302:23 min
Armenian demonstrators waving Armenian flags in Yerevan

Armenia PM signals foreign policy shift away from Russia

Armenia could join the International Criminal Court (ICC), which has issued an arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin.
ConflictsSeptember 24, 2023
People standing outside a campsite for civilians who have been evacuated

Armenia urges UN to monitor human rights in Nagorno-Karabakh

Azerbaijan has promised to safeguard rights in the enclave, but ethnic Armenians left behind fear they'll be persecuted.
ConflictsSeptember 24, 2023
Konflikt in Berg-Karabach

Red Cross aid reaches Nagorno-Karabakh

Concern is growing over the plight of thousands of Armenian civilians without shelter, trapped in the disputed region.
ConflictsSeptember 23, 202301:58 min
Vehicles of Russian peacekeepers heading towards Azerbaijan's Nagorno-Karabakh region pass an Armenian checkpoint on a road near the village of Kornidzor, Armenia September 22, 2023

Nagorno-Karabakh: Armenian fighters give up arms after truce

Armenian fighters in the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh were forced to surrender earlier this week.
ConflictsSeptember 23, 2023
Russian peacekeepers escorting Armenian civilians as they arrive at a Russian military base to receive accomodation near Stepanakert in the Nagorno-Karabakh region on September 21, 2023

Karabakh residents' rights must be guaranteed, Scholz says

The German chancellor stressed the importance of ensuring humanitarian care to Nagorno-Karabakh residents.
PoliticsSeptember 23, 2023
Man carries box at Armenia Food Bank collection point for Nagorno-Karabakh aid

Nagorno-Karabakh: Azerbaijan sends humanitarian aid

Azerbaijan says it has sent tons of humanitarian aid to the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region.
ConflictsSeptember 22, 2023
Ethnic Armenians flee Nagorno-Karabakh as ceasefire fails

Ethnic Armenians flee Nagorno-Karabakh as ceasefire fails

Armenians are angry with Russian peace keepers, who they feel have failed to protect them.
ConflictsSeptember 22, 202302:23 min
Protesters gather, discuss and wave the flag of Nagorno-Karabakh in front of a government building in the Armenian capital Yerevan as police look on

Armenia in political crisis after Nagorno-Karabakh defeat

The opposition has demanded that Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan resign for "giving Nagorno-Karabakh to Azerbaijan."
ConflictsSeptember 21, 2023
An Azerbaijani flag is hoisted in Baku

Nagorno-Karabakh conflict: Will EU take on Azerbaijan?

Calls are again growing for the EU to take a firmer line with Azerbaijan. Hopeful Armenians shouldn't hold their breath.
PoliticsSeptember 21, 2023
Davit Melkumyan, a lawmaker in Nagorno-Karabakh, arrives for talks

Nagorno-Karabakh: Azerbaijan meets with Armenian separatists

The talks came after Azerbaijan said it gained complete control of the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region.
ConflictsSeptember 21, 2023
Protesters rallied in the Armenian capital, Yerevan, over the government's handling of the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh

Azerbaijan claims control over Nagorno-Karabakh

Azerbaijan has regained control of Nagorno-Karabakh after ethnic Armenian forces laid down their arms.
ConflictsSeptember 21, 202302:33 min
Civilians move towards a Russian soldier standing next an SUV

Nagorno-Karabakh: What role does Russia play?

Armenians have looked to Russia for protection, but Russian peacekeepers stayed out of the recent conflict. Why?
ConflictsSeptember 20, 2023
Auto mit Schusslöchern steht in Stepanakert am Straßenrand

Russian-backed deal halts fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh

Azerbaijan halts military operation in Nagorno-Karabakh after ethnic Armenian fighters agree to disarm.
PoliticsSeptember 20, 202301:46 min