The Latest Breaking News from Azerbaijan

French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna is in Armenia to examine the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh, an enclave in Azerbaijan which until two weeks ago had a sizeable ethnic Armenian population. But now the enclave is almost empty, as more than 100,000 of its former residents have crossed the border and fled…

Azerbaijani authorities have arrested several former separatist leaders of Nagorno-Karabakh after reclaiming control of the Armenian-populated breakaway region in a lightning military operation last month

Many of those left behind are the sick and elderly, with humanitarian groups trying to seek them out to provide help. Armenia is also struggling to house and support the 100,000 people who have fled into the country

Thirty-five years ago, more than 100,000 Armenian protesters took to the streets to convince Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev that Nagorno-Karabakh – an ethnically Armenian enclave stuck geographically in the neighboring republic of Soviet Azerbaijan – ought to be joined to Armenia.