A court in Azerbaijan has convicted investigative journalist Khadija Ismayilova of several financial crimes and sentenced her to 7½ years in prison, in a case...
Russian President Vladimir Putin is having a change of heart on the Kremlin's wholehearted support for Syrian leader Bashar Assad and may "give up on him" in...
Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov Monday dismissed as “counterproductive” an announcement by Washington that it could take extra measures to defend...
With Boston no longer in contention, IOC President Thomas Bach urged U.S. Olympic leaders Tuesday to pick "the most appropriate city" as a substitute...
Toro Rosso boss Franz Tost has defended Formula One's decision to race in Azerbaijan next year while brushing off concerns about media freedom and the...
Azerbaijan on Saturday accused arch-foe Armenia's troops of killing its soldier in a new clash amid a Western-mediated push to cauterize the protracted...
An Azerbaijani court Tuesday threw out an appeal by a prominent rights activist jailed for seven and a half years on charges that he has denounced as...
Georgia decried Tuesday Moscow's "creeping annexation" of its territory after Russian border guards moved border markers further into Tbilisi-controlled area,...
Paris entered the race for the 2024 Olympics Tuesday, proclaiming the bid on Olympic Day in what promises to be a tightly fought contest.
Switzerland has flown out of Azerbaijan an opposition journalist who had been sheltering for 10 months at its embassy in Baku, officials said Saturday, a day...
Singer Lady Gaga spent several days hiding in a hotel in Baku, Azerbaijan to keep her presence a secret before she performed at the European Games.
The Azeri organizers of the European Games are prepared for anti-Armenian sentiment from the home crowd, they said, a day after the neighboring country's team...
Russian President Vladimir Putin met Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan for talks expected to touch on energy issues and the Syria crisis
Russia says it is considering hosting a future edition of the European Games after the Netherlands withdrew as host of the 2019 event.
Azerbaijan has blocked a visit by Amnesty International at which it planned to highlight human rights abuses in the south Caucasian republic as it prepares to...
There have been several publications about the life of Soghomon Soghomonian (1869-1935).
Azerbaijani officials say 16 people have died and more than 50 have been injured in a fire at an apartment building in Baku, the capital.
Opposition parties for the first time won parliamentary seats in the legislature of Azerbaijan's breakaway Nagorny Karabakh in a vote denounced as...
Turkey’s energy minister and Russia’s Gazprom chief took a helicopter ride over the Black Sea to survey a possible route of the “Turkish Stream” pipeline...
A U.S. federal agency on Friday strongly condemned the raid and closure of the offices of a U.S.-funded radio station in Azerbaijan's capital by prosecutors...