With the latest ceasefire violation report cases available from official sources, one can still spot discrepancies in ceasefire violation reporting. According to the Armenian military officials in Nagorno Karabakh, the situation has not changed much from last year, however, Azeri military officials show a 30% decrease in ceasefire violations fromContinue Reading
On 12 April, news on social media spread about the death of Azeri serviceman Meherrem Mayilzade being killed. Although military authorities in Baku have not yet commented on the incident, it is speculated that Mayilzade died as a result of a mine explosion. According to the Armenian military blog razm.info,Continue Reading
On 10 April, the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) conducted a ceasefire monitoring mission on the line-of-contact between Azerbaijan and Nagorno Karabakh. On the Azeri side of ceasefire monitoring was done by OSCE representatives Ghenadie Petrica (Moldova), Simon Tiller (United Kingdom) as well as Ralf Bosshard(Switzerland). WhileContinue Reading
On Saturday, the Chief-of-Staff of the Nagorno Karabakh Armed Forces, Maj Gen Karen Abrahamyan, received his counterpart from Armenia Lt Gen Artak Davtyan. Subsequently, the two paid visits to military bases and outposts along the line-of-contact in the centre and south of Nagorno Karabakh. Officially, the aim of the eventsContinue Reading
Concluding the first three months of the year, ceasefire violation reports continue to show conflicting figures. Official ceasefire violation cases are published by the Ministries of Defence of both Azerbaijan and Nagorno Karabakh, nonetheless there continues to be a discrepancy between the two figures. Official reports from military authorities inContinue Reading
On Thursday, 28 March 2019, the OSCE mission to the Caucasus conducted another ceasefire monitoring mission along the line-of-contact between the de facto Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijan. According to authorities in Stepanakert (known by the Azeri side as Khankendi), the mission took place at military outposts just northwest of theContinue Reading
On 25 March 2019, military authorities in Stepanakert announced the death of 21-year-old serviceman Ara Arakelian at military base in northeastern Nagorno Karabakh’s Martakert region. The cause of death is currently being investigated and has been officially announced as from “undetermined circumstances”. Coincidentally, on the same day, Allaz Alazov, anContinue Reading
On 26 March, the Azeri Defence Ministry has reported the death of serviceman Allaz Allazov from cross-border fire on the line-of-contact near the town of Fizuli in southern Nagorno Karabakh. According to the Armenian military news portal Razm.info, Allazov was from the village of Yuxarı Salahlı in the region ofContinue Reading
On 18 March 2019, Azeri conscript Aqil Hümbetov was apparently killed on the line-of-contact in southeastern Nagorno Karabakh (southwestern Azerbaijan) near the village of Chojuk Merjanli. Humbetov, a native of the village of Çay Qaraqoyunlu, in the Sheki region. According to Azeri media outlet Bizimyol.info, the information was provided byContinue Reading
This last week (17 -23 March) the Nagorno Karabakh Ministry of Defence registered around 180 ceasefire violations, with an approximate projectile count of 1.900 by small arms fire. Compared to the same week in 2018, this week saw a 17% increase in reported ceasefire violations. It is worth mentioning thatContinue Reading
According to the latest ceasefire violation reports of the Nagorno Karabakh Ministry of Defence, this last week (10-16 March 2019) around 250 violations were reported, with an approximate projectile count of 3.000. Besides the latter, on 13 March, official reports stated that between 10.35-11.15 hours, nine 60 mm mortar roundsContinue Reading
The de facto Nagorno Karabakh (NK) President Bako Sahakyan received Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on what was the latter’s official visit to Stepanakert. On 12 March, the Security Council’s of both leaderships headed by Sahakyan and Pashinyan met for consultations on a series of issues. Both sides agreed onContinue Reading
Footage and satellite imagery from the past several months highlight demolitions of ethnic-Armenian churches, homes, residential buildings and even a village in Nagorno Karabakh. The demolitions were carried out by Azerbaijan’s government, now fully in control of the territory. The entire Armenian population of 120,000 fled to Armenia proper
Mayors of the three major cities of former Nagorno Karabakh, have been arrested by Armenian authorities coinciding with a growing opposition movement with whom they may have been associated with. The mayor of Karabakhi capital Stepanakert, and those of Askeran and Martakert cities have been detained by Armenian authorities. Stepanakert
On 24 May, 2024, Armenia’s Defence Ministry reported that the country’s prime minister nominated five colonels to be promoted to the rank of major general. This is one of the highest numbers of officers promoted to such ranks in one act in recent years. These career advancements possibly indicate loyalty,
Azerbaijan’s defence minister receives large Turkish delegation headed by the country’s deputy defence minister and the heads of numerous Turkish defence firms. The two sides discussed further military coop. including joint weapons production. Interestingly, Turkish general Bahtiyar Ersay appears in a complete Azeri military uniform on Azerbaijan’s side of the
In January 2024, footage emerged of what appear to be Azeri military personnel in the ethnic-Armenian village of Hakaku, Nagorno Karabakh (NK). The village, along with the entire territory of NK were overran by Azerbaijan’s military during it’s offensive in September 2023. One of the first sources of the footage
Since approximately 2020, mystery aircraft have been spotted flying around Azerbaijan’s northwestern Dallar airbase, 30 km from Armenia’s border. They were spotted a month prior to the 2020 Nagorno Karabakh war and had been seen numerous times since. The aircraft had not been able to be explicitly identified through open
