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Why is the Islamic State group 'fixated' on Russia and what is ISIS-K?
9 months ago

Why is the Islamic State group 'fixated' on Russia and what is ISIS-K?

ABC  

A branch of Islamic State, the militant group that once sought control over swathes of Iraq and Syria, has claimed responsibility for a deadly terrorist attack at a Moscow concert hall. Islamic State's Amaq news agency posted a statement on Telegram following the deadly shooting, saying its fighters attacked on the outskirts of Moscow. The war began in 2011 after …

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Azerbaijan accuses France of stoking 'new war' in Caucasus
1 year, 1 month ago

Azerbaijan accuses France of stoking 'new war' in Caucasus

The Hindu  

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on Tuesday accused France of inciting a fresh war in the Caucasus by arming Baku's arch foe Armenia, with which it had fought two wars. is pursuing a militaristic policy by arming Armenia, encouraging revanchist forces in Armenia, and laying the groundwork for provoking new wars in our region," Aliyev said in written comments to an …

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Fighting flares again in a breakaway region in the Caucasus Mountains
1 year, 3 months ago

Fighting flares again in a breakaway region in the Caucasus Mountains

LA Times  

Nagorno-Karabakh human rights ombudsman Geghan Stepanyan tweeted this image from video of an apartment building damaged by shelling in Stepanakert. Ethnic Armenian authorities in the Caucasus Mountains region urged Azerbaijan to sit down for talks, but Azerbaijan’s presidential administration said what it described as an “anti-terrorist operation” will continue until “illegal Armenian military formations” surrender and the separatist government of …

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Explained | The Azerbaijan-Armenia conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh and the status of peace talks
2 years, 6 months ago

Explained | The Azerbaijan-Armenia conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh and the status of peace talks

The Hindu  

The story so far: Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azeri President Ilham Aliyev announced on May 23 that their respective countries would be setting up border security and delimitation commissions, signalling a step towards resolution of a decades-long conflict over the Nagorno-Karabakh Enclave. The Minsk Group was created by the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe in early …

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Iran ‘concerned’ by Israeli ‘presence’ in the Caucasus
3 years, 2 months ago

Iran ‘concerned’ by Israeli ‘presence’ in the Caucasus

Al Jazeera  

Iran’s new FM, in Moscow for talks, said Tehran ‘will not tolerate geopolitical change and map change in the Caucasus’. Iran’s new Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, who is in Moscow for talks with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov, said on Wednesday that Iran “certainly will not tolerate geopolitical change and map change in the Caucasus”. Iran’s army and the Islamic …

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Ending conflict in the Caucasus
4 years, 2 months ago

Ending conflict in the Caucasus

The Hindu  

The military confrontation between Armenia and Azerbaijan, the gravest since a fragile ceasefire was established in 1994, reflects the failure of the Minsk Group of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe. Co-chaired by Russia, France and the U.S., the Minsk Group put forward in 2007 the Madrid Principles as the basis for the formulation of a peace treaty …

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