Armenia–Azerbaijan relations

Seven Armenian soldiers were killed in clashes between Azerbaijani and Armenian forces during the last week, the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry said in a statement on Sept. 5.

At least five Armenian troops have been killed in border clashes with Azerbaijani soldiers, said Azerbaijani officials on Aug. 24.

The Defense Ministry of Azerbaijan said in a statement that Armenian soldiers fired at Azerbaijani positions with howitzers on Aug. 21.

Azerbaijani forces fired back and killed at least five Armenian soldiers and wounded eight, the ministry said.

OSCE Chairperson in Office Ivica Dacic started his official trip to the South Caucasus on Monday with a visit to Baku.

The Serbian foreign minister conferred with President llham Aliyev about the potential for progress towards a comprehensive peace agreement for the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, as well as co-operation between the OSCE and Azerbaijan.

Turkish and Azeri armed forces May 12 started joint military exercises in the Azeri capital of Baku and Nakhchivan, the Azeri Ministry of Defense said in a statement.

The exercises would continue until May 17 and were being held within the framework of a military cooperation agreement between Turkey and Azerbaijan, it said.

French President Hollande raises rights abuses with Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev at talks focused on its dispute with Armenia over Nagorny Karabakh French President Francois Hollande on April 25 raised rights abuses with Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev at talks focused on its dispute with Armenia over Nagorny Karabakh.

Armenian forces on killed on April 16 an Azerbaijani soldier in the latest breach of a ceasefire between the arch-foes locked in a simmering conflict over the disputed Nagorny Karabakh region, officials in Baku said.

Locals sigh with relief as their Armenian village of Movses, close to the border with Azerbaijan, disappears in the lilac mist rolling down from the Kardash mountain, where Azeri snipers have fortified positions.
      

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavu?o?lu has condemned Khojaly Massacre, speaking in Baku a day before the 23th anniversary of the incident, while a Turkish parliamentary committee has urged for the trial of those responsible for the incident, which caused the death of more than 600 ethnic Azerbaijanis.

An Azerbaijani soldier was killed in border clashes with Armenian forces, according to a statement from the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defense on Feb. 21.

The clashes erupted on early Feb. 21 between Armenian and Azerbaijani soldiers when an Armenian reconnaissance unit tried to cross the front line into southern Azerbaijan, the statement said.

Armenia and Azerbaijan have found themselves among the 10 countries with the highest levels of militarization in the world, according to the Global Militarization Index 2014 revealed by the Bonn International Center for Conversation.