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President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev answers AnewZ's question on the crumbling world order, the role of the Board of Peace, and the need for new mechanisms in global relations and international law.

Beit Jala بيت جالا, a Palestinian Christian town near Bethlehem home to around 11K Christians whose roots trace back to Aramaic-speaking communities Today, it faces a wave of Christian emigration as settler gangs seize its lands and threaten their presence in their ancestral home

Thirty-seven years have passed since the Kirovabad (Gandzak) pogroms. Beginning on November 21, 1988, Azerbaijani mobs armed with clubs, rebar, knives, and stones carried out a week of organized attacks against the Armenian population of Kirovabad, then the second-largest city of the Azerbaijan SSR, now called Ganja. Armenian homes were raided, residents were hunted through the streets, and entire neighborhoods were terrorized with the explicit objective of cleansing the city of its Armenian presence. In the aftermath, the remaining Armenians were forced to abandon Kirovabad completely. These events were not isolated. They followed the Sumgait pogroms earlier that same year and formed part of a broader pattern of targeted anti-Armenian violence throughout Soviet Azerbaijan. The intent was clear: erase Armenian communities through intimidation, murder, and forced displacement. The same logic continued long after 1988 and reached its most brutal expression in 2023 with the complete depopulation of Artsakh, where more than one hundred thousand Armenians were driven from their ancestral homeland in a matter of days. The world witnessed the culmination of a policy that had been set in motion decades earlier. Remembering Kirovabad is not only an act of historical truth. It is a reminder that the violence of the past is directly connected to the tragedy that unfolded in Artsakh in 2023. The victims were part of the same story of erasure, carried out by the same state and driven by the same ideology. 📷 National Television Archive Bakur Karapetyan, Walking in Torment Anatoly Talashkevich, From Sumgait to Ossetia Grigory Atayan, 1983: Kirovabad on Osipyan

Least schizoid Azerbaijani professors now claiming that Georgian churches are in fact Caucasian Albanian, and thus, Turkic

The Azerbaijani army is being aligned with NATO standards. According to President Ilham Aliyev, who met with representatives of the Alliance, Azerbaijan has achieved its main goal since gaining independence in the early 1990s, "the liberation of its occupied territories". Cooperation between Azerbaijan and NATO began back in 1992 and has only expanded in recent years. For example, in June this year, Azerbaijan and the Alliance held a joint training on military operations planning, and in July–August, the country’s army took part in NATO’s Agile Spirit exercises held in Georgia.