An Azeri conscript has killed himself at a military outpost near the border town of Fizuli, on the Artsakh-Azerbaijan border. Rza Rzayev, born in August 1996 and originally from the city of Ganja, was found hanging by a fellow conscript in what was an apparent suicide. Rzayev’s brother Hikmet confirmedContinue Reading
The Azeri Armed Forces conducted life-fire artillery training today at an undisclosed military training facility according to the country’s Ministry of Defence. The exercises saw the deployment of artillery guns, self-propelled artillery, unguided and guided rockets as well as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), essentially drones being used for locating targets.Continue Reading
Ahead of the Aliyev-Sargsyan meeting in Sochi, an Armenian serviceman was killed on the Armenia-Azerbaijan border in northeastern Armenia. The incident happened at a military outpost on the heavily-militarised Armenia-Azerbaijan border. The victim was 19-year-old Chaplin Margaryan from the village of Armavir, who was shot by Azeri troops whileContinue Reading
08 October 2017 saw the death of 19-year-old Azeri conscript, Saleh İsayev (Valeh oğlu ) by a fellow serviceman at a military outpost near the border town of Aghdam. Information got out through the victim’s family and was made public by local press agencies, particularly an undisclosed journalist from Meydan TV. İsayevContinue Reading
SOURCE: Naira Hayrumyan, Jam News, 10 OCT 2017 Azerbaijan seeks to make the EU respect its territorial integrity Armenia and Azerbaijan may sign a framework agreement with the EU on the sidelines of the Brussels Summit. However, unlike the text of the EU-Armenia agreement, which was initialed back in March thisContinue Reading
At the end of September of this year, Armenian Defence Minister Vigen Sargsyan held talks with Poland’s Deputy Foreign Minister for Security and Eastern Affairs Bartosz Cichocki. Armenian-Polish cooperation in defence matters and Armenia’s military-industrial development were discussed at the talks. Cichocki highlighted to journalists that Warsaw has offeredContinue Reading
Stepanakert welcomed a delegation of California Senate and State Assembly members during an official visit on 07 October 2017. The meeting took place between the Presidency, headed by Bako Sahakian , California State Senator Anthony Portantino and Scott Wilk, and State Assembly Members Adrin Nazarian, Dante Acosta, Mark Levine and Laura Friedman. Among the issues discussedContinue Reading
Azeri conscript Bahruz Jalilbeyli, who murdered an officer and two other servicemen on 27 September of this year at a military base near Julfa, Nakhichevan has yet to be found. The commander of the military outpost where he served was taken into questioning along with the remaining three conscripts. ThereContinue Reading
SOURCE: New America Weekly on 05 May 2016 by Mirian Jugheli Soft Power… The phrase typically means exertion of influence by one country over others through non-military means. The United States, for example, demonstrated soft power when all of Europe tuned in for the finale of How I Met Your Mother. ButContinue Reading
SOURCE: Prague Daily Monitor 29 September 2017 The Czech arms which recently appeared in a video promotion of the Azerbaijani Armed Forces may have reached the country across Israel, the daily Hospodarske noviny (HN) writes on Wednesday. The Bulgarian server Trud.bg speculates that disassembled weapons may have been transported into IsraelContinue Reading
Armenia’s Ministry of Defence recently received large quantities of radio communication equipment, including produced by the Russian conglomerate Sozvezdie. The communication systems acquired, which include R168 100 series and 54 series, are rated as one of the highest quality in the world, with unique encoding technology, which complicate the taskContinue Reading
Murdered servicemen from left to right: Vusal Aghayev, Nahid Abbasov and Elvin Şerifli Azeri conscript Bahruz Jalilbeyli turned his weapon on his fellow soldiers on 27 September, killing Lieutenant Nahid Abbasov along with Elvin Şerifli and Vusal Aghayev. The incident happened at an undisclosed military outpost near the cityContinue 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
