Police in the Armenian capital Yerevan on Thursday arrested dozens of protesters following a night of violent clashes over a four-day hostage standoff in which pro-opposition gunmen killed one officer and took several hostage.
A group of armed men seized a police station in Armenia's capital Yerevan along with an unknown number of hostages on Sunday morning, the country's security service said.
The Vatican hit back on Sunday at Turkey's depiction of Pope Francis as having a ‘crusader mentality’ after he used the word genocide to describe the massacre of 1.5 million Armenians a century ago.
Pope Francis on Saturday insisted memory ‘cannot be stifled’ as he visited the main Armenian genocide memorial in Yerevan, on the second day of a trip likely to stir tensions with Turkey.
Pope Francis visits Armenia this weekend and will try to avoid reigniting a diplomatic dispute with Turkey after his branding...
Georgia has arrested five people for trying to sell radioactive uranium material, the second such seizure this month, investigators said on Thursday.
Georgia has arrested three of its nationals and three citizens of Armenia for trying to sell the radioactive substance uranium-238, the ex-Soviet country's security services said Monday.
Azerbaijan said Saturday that Armenian forces killed 12 of its soldiers and shot down a helicopter as fierce fighting erupted between the arch-foes over the disputed Nagorny Karabakh region.
