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12/08/2023

Armenia and Azerbaijan say they are working toward a comprehensive peace agreement.

10/06/2023

Azerbaijan is now renewing longstanding calls to create an Azeri-controlled “corridor” across southern Armenia to Nakhchivan, a part of Azerbaijan that is separated from the rest of the country by a thin sliver of Southern Armenia. When Armenia cut Azerbaijan’s overland ties to Nakhchivan during the 1991 war, Azerbaijan created routes through neighboring Iran and Turkey to Nakhichevan.. Turkey, which has always strongly supported its ethnolinguistic cousins, the Azeris, also likes the idea. Linking Azerbaijan, Nakhchivan, and Turkey would create a pan-Turkic entity spanning from the Caspian Sea to the Mediterranean.

09/28/2023

President of Nagorno-Karabakh Samvel Shahramanyan dissolves the breakaway republic as of 1/1/24.

09/21/2023

Armenia and Azerbaijan clash at a meeting of the UN Security Council over the Nagorno-Karabakh region, part of Azerbaijan. Armenia says Azerbaijan’s month-long blockade of the Lachin Corridor, the only road connecting mainly Armenian-populated Nagorno-Karabakh to Armenia, has left its people with dwindling food, medicine and electricity.

09/21/2023

Azerbaijan says it has retaken the Nagorno-Krabakh region. It now controls the region and many ethnic Armenians are fleeing to Armenia.

09/20/2023

Russian peacekeepers negotiate a ceasefire. Peace negotiations to begin 9/21.

09/19/2023

Azerbaijan launches new military operation in Nagorno-Karabakh that it calls an “anti-terrorist” operation that would targets only military installations.

06/28/2023

Fighting between Armenian and Azerbaijani soldiers in Artsakh.

05/11/2023

The day before UN talks between Armenia and Azerbaijan to begin, fighting breaks out between them. Both accuse the other of starting the fighting.

03/05/2023

New clash in Nagorno-Karabakh.

01/22/2023

EU sends mission to Armenia to try to ease tension about blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh by some Azeris. Russia criticizes the effort as increasing tensions.

12/14/2022

Armenian parliamentarians of the governing coalition accuse Russia of fomenting a new war with Azerbaijan and criticize the conduct of Russian peacekeepers. There is a new crisis due to the Lachin blockade.

12/13/2022

Azerbaijanis who call themselves environmentalists blockade the Lachin corridor, the only route from Armenia in the renegade province of Artsakh. The protestors say they are opposed to mining in Nagorno-Karabakh; the protest blocks Karabarkh motorists. Artsakh officials report that Azerbaijan has blocked the flow of gas to Artsakh through Armenia.

09/26/2022

Negotiations continue, but tensions remain high on the Azeri-Armenian border.

09/23/2022

Armenia and Azerbaijan accuse each other of breaking the ceasefire.

09/20/2022

Armenian and Azeri negotiators meet.

09/14/2022

Fighting breaks out again despite the ceasefire.

09/12/2022

Fighting breaks out between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Each accuses the other of provoking it. Armenia calls by assistance from the Russia-led Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), Russia’s answer to NATO. Russia says that it has arranged a ceasefire.

08/03/2022

Renewed clashes between Armenia and Azerbaijan in the Nagarno-Karabakh region.

05/03/2022

Large protests against government. The opposition has accused the government of planning to cede Baku to Azerbaijan in the current negotiations.

04/07/2022

Armenia and Azerbaijan agree to peace talks and a joint committee on border resolution.

03/29/2022

Azerbaijan agrees to peace talks with Armenia that would produce a comprehensive peace treaty.

11/16/2021

Outbreaks of fighting between Azerbaijan and Armenia as a Russia-brokered ceasefire is imposed.

11/08/2021

Armenia's PM Pashinyan gradually cementing the authority of his government and displacing the more hardline members of the political class. This may lead to the opening of the Zangezur Corridor, a key route for trade. For its part, Azerbaijan has invested heavily in the territories it gained in the war. The increase in the price of oil has helped Azerbaijan, making it the economic leader of the South Caucasus.

10/14/2021

Armenia expands its case against Azerbaijan in the International Court of Justice, adding a violation of the internal convention on racial discrimination regarding Armenians. Azerbaijan denies the charge and charges Armenia similarly, but not formally.

12/01/2020

Azerbaijan completes takeover of land ceded by Armenia in peace agreement.

11/24/2020

The peace agreement on Nagorno-Karabakh leaves Azerbaijan in control of its whole border with Iran. Iran is unhappy with the deal because Israel and Azerbaijan share intelligence, The deal also allows Turkey access to the Caspian Sea. Russia’s support of its ally Armenia seems half-hearted, giving Turkey more room to maneuver in the Middle East.

11/18/2020

Turkish parliament approves troop deployment to Nagorno-Karabakh.

11/15/2020

Azerbaijan delays takeover of some regions as mandated by the peace agreement until 11/25, as residents flee and burn their houses behind them.

11/09/2020

Nagorno-Karabakh peace agreement

Armenia reluctantly agrees to end the war in mediation with Russia. Azerbaijan was steadily gaining ground.

10/26/2020

Another humanitarian cease-fire is broken.

10/24/2020

Armenian and Azeri diplomats hold talks in US. Outbreaks of fighting continue.

10/19/2020

Truce shattered by heavy fighting.

10/18/2020

Fighting continues. Azerbaijan seizes strategic bridges and dam near Iranian border.

10/13/2020

Fighting continues. Iran warns Armenia and Azerbaijan against allowing a spread of the fighting and also offers to mediate. Iran has a substantial Azerbaijani minority, much larger than its Armenian minority and has asserted that Nagorno-Karabakh is Azerbaijani territory. However, it is concerned about Azeri links with the US and with Israel. Turkey also offers support for Azerbaijan.

10/11/2020

Ceasefire shaky but holding.

10/10/2020

Armenia and Azerbaijan agree to a short humanitarian ceasefire in talks brokered by Russia. It is not an agreement for peace talks and both sides immediately accuse each other of breaking the truce.

10/09/2020

Armenia and Azerbaijan agree to negotiate in Moscow.

10/04/2020

Fighting expands to civilian targets in both Azerbaijan and Nagorno-Karabakh.

10/02/2020

Fighting continues, but Armenia says it is open to peace talks.

10/01/2020

Fighting continues. Both sides reject mediation. Armenia, which is in a military alliance of former Soviet countries, has accused Turkey of sending Syrian mercenaries to fight for Azerbaijan, which denies the charge.

09/28/2020

Fighting continues. Both countries have declared martial law.

09/25/2020

Heavy fighting in the Nagorno-Karabakh region near its capital. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan accuses Azerbaijan of starting the fighting with a bombing campaign. Azerbaijan says Armenia initiated the attacks.

07/12/2020

Fighting between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces on the border.

04/14/2020

Second round of presidential election in Artsakh. Mayilyan has urged people not to vote in order to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

03/31/2020

First round of presidential and National Assembly election in Artsakh. Arayik Harutyunyan of the Free Motherland-MCA coalition comes in first and incumbent Foreign Minister Masis Mayilyan, an independent supported by the New Artsakh Alliance is second. will be held on 14 April 2020.

02/28/2020

Azerbaijan confirms its first case of COVID-19.

02/09/2020

Parliamentary elections. Opposition calls for boycotts of the vote. Aliyev is attempting to move the old guard of politicians out of power, many of whom served his father.

02/20/2017

A constitutional referendum passes in the breakaway Nagorno-Karabak region. It changes the name of the region to the Republic of Artsakh, abolishes the office of prime minister and increases the power of the president.

12/12/2016

Azerbaijan agrees to buy billions in weapons from Israel. Azerbaijan has tense relations with Iran, on its southern border, which has condemned ties between Israel and Azerbaijan.

04/05/2016

Armenia and Azerbaijan agree to a ceasefire.

04/03/2016

Azerbaijan says it has halted combat operations against Armenia unless Armenia continues fighting, but that it will keep the territory it gained during the fighting.

04/01/2016

Third day of fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan, spurred by a boundary dispute about the Nagorno-Karabakh region.

11/01/2015

Parliamentary elections, in which outcome is largely predetermined, ensuring Ilham Aliyev will continue as president.