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In 2020, Azerbaijan won back many of the water resources it had lost to Armenians in the 1990s. But the biggest source still eludes it, and farmers are still struggling.

The order to leave within 20 days was a sharp U-turn from earlier messages saying that there was still a year and a half to find a solution.

The group said it was avenging an Azerbaijani woman who was "persecuted" by the authorities for writing a Shiite slogan on the wall of her home.

It was the latest in a string of arrests of people accused of smuggling in the territories Azerbaijan recaptured from Armenia in the 2020 war.

The escalation came as Azerbaijan has been trying to push Armenia to speed up the construction of a new road connecting Armenia to Karabakh.

Tashkent sees the link as part of a transcontinental route bypassing Russia.

A series of personnel appointments connected to the powerful Pashayev family have raised questions about the bank’s independence.

The memorandum is a win for Baku while committing it to do little.

Political movements based on Shia Islam have faced an uphill battle, as both the government and mainstream opposition are devoted to a secular, pro-Turkic national narrative.

At least 36 veterans are known to have died as a result of suicides since the end of the 2020 war. The opposition and government are sparring over who is to blame.

The U.S. is pressing companies to show vigilance over export control evasion attempts.

Because official statistics are nonsense, we look to personnel reshuffles to understand where the government recognizes it is underperforming. Our weekly briefing.

The Armenian-Turkish announcement was the result of months-long negotiations. Was Azerbaijan’s closure of its own border with Turkey a response?

The announcement by Turkey appears to be response to increased interest from Europe in non-Russian sources of energy.

A new investigation has found that agricultural firms connected to powerful people, including the first family, were given non-transparent contracts to develop land in Karabakh.