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The two countries, whose relations have long been strained, are now working together on a transit corridor and discussing normalizing their relations.

Six people, allegedly with ties to Iran, were detained as suspects in the shooting of MP Fazil Mustafa.

His outspoken criticism of Iran, and the timing coinciding with the opening of Azerbaijan's embassy in Israel led some fellow MPs to point the finger at Tehran.

Spring is when unmarked uranium tailings are most vulnerable.

Azerbaijan sent two notes of protest in the past week to its southern neighbor, with whom relations have been steadily deteriorating.

It is the first direct accusation from Azerbaijan following strong suggestions to the same effect.

There is a widespread belief in Baku that the attack may have been connected to Azerbaijan’s growing relationship with Israel.

The embassy's chief of security was shot dead, and two other staff were wounded. The attack comes amid Azerbaijan's increasingly strained relations with Iran and blossoming friendship with Iran's archrival Israel.

In response, Beijing urged its nationals to leave Afghanistan. Then a Chinese firm signed a big new oil deal in the country’s north.

The drills included a crossing of the river that forms the Azerbaijan-Iran border, mirroring the threat that Iran’s armed forces had made weeks earlier.

The countries have agreed to systematize defense cooperation.

Questioning the territorial integrity of the neighboring country, once a taboo topic, is increasingly entering official discourse both in Baku and Tehran.

The arrests come as tension between Baku and Tehran has been reaching a peak.

Dushanbe apparently began producing Iranian drones under license earlier this year.

Tehran appears alarmed both by Azerbaijan’s saber-rattling against Armenia and by a new EU monitoring mission to Armenia’s border with Iran.