Acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has appointed Armen Grigoryan first deputy foreign minister. Prior to this appointment, Grigoryan held the position of National Security Council secretary from May 17, 2018.

The Court of Grave Crimes in Baku began today the trial of two Armenian prisoners of war, Davit Davtyan and Gevorg Sujyan, who are charged with espionage. The founding presidents of the New Armenia-Homeland-Diaspora charity Sujyan and Davtyan were taken prisoner on November 11, 2020 on the Berdzor-Shushi road, two after the ceasefire agreement.

An incident was registered in the Yeraskh section of the Armenian-Azerbaijani border on July 14 at around 10:30 am. Units of the Azerbaijani Armed Forces tried to carry out fortification works using engineering equipment in order to advance their positions. After the counter-actions of the Armenian side aimed at stopping the mentioned works, the Azeri …

Some 5,001 COVID -19 tests were performed yesterday, revealing 159 new cases; 3 people died; 3,198 patients are currently receiving treatment. As of 11:00 am on July 13, a total of 1,247,362 tests have been performed in Armenia, with 226,756 of them positive. The total number of deaths stands at 4,552; at least 217,896 people …

In a letter to the Netherland’s ambassador to Azerbaijan, the Armenian National Committee of the Netherlands has expressed its discontent over the ambassador’s participation in a visit to the occupied regions of Artsakh. The letter that was published on the ANC’s Facebook page, reads: “Dear Mrs. Eizema, We received information that you also participated in …

The heads of the relevant diplomatic missions were invited to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Armenia with regard to the participation of the diplomatic representatives of some countries in the visit organized by the Azerbaijani authorities to the occupied territories of Nagorno-Karabakh on July 9-10. The ambassadors have been handed over …

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev received Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexei Overchuk in Baku today, local media reported, citing Aliyev’s press service. “Issues related to the activities of the trilateral working group chaired by deputy prime ministers of Azerbaijan, Russia and Armenia were discussed during the conversation,” the statement said. In addition, Aliyev and Overchuk discussed …

A man accompanying a group searching in Artsakh’s Martuni district for bodies of soldiers missing in action was gravely wounded yesterday in a landmine explosion. Hunan Tadevosyan, the head of the Information and Public Relations Department of the Artsakh Ministry of Internal Affairs, told Factor.am that Norayr Sarsadanyan was given first aid first by our …

The Taliban warned Turkey on Tuesday against possible plans to keep some troops in Afghanistan to run and guard Kabul’s main airport after the withdrawal of foreign troops, calling the strategy “reprehensible” and warning of “consequences”. Ankara, which has offered to run and guard the airport in the capital after NATO’s withdraws, has been in …