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Azerbaijan

August 2026

  • Samvel and Avo laugh joyfully with arms around each other on a fairground ride

    The Black Garden review – haunting study of growing up in war-torn Nagorno-Karabakh

    Alexis Pazoumian’s documentary follows Samvel and Avo, two preteen boys whose lives will be unavoidably scarred by brutal conflict

July 2026

  • President Trump holds a large photograph of a building with white columns against a blue sky

    Trump ballroom donor to lead state department’s $200m Armenia fund

    Konstantin Sokolov, who gave undisclosed sum and has not held government job before, to chair Tripp+ trade project

June 2026

  • Pashinyan makes a heart gesture with his hands, smiling at the camera

    Pro-western but populist: how Nikol Pashinyan retained power in Armenia

    PM secured re-election despite devastating military defeat to Azerbaijan and political and economic pressure from Moscow

April 2026

  • Volodymyr Zelenskyy meets with Ilham Aliyev during a working visit to Azerbaijan

    Russia-Ukraine war at a glance
    Ukraine war briefing: Zelenskyy signs agreement with Azerbaijan as death toll from Russian attacks rises to 10

    Ukrainian leader said he had signed an agreement in Baku on military-industrial co-operation as Russia pounds city of Dnipro with missiles and drones.
  • Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy seated next to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman

    Russia-Ukraine war at a glance
    Ukraine war briefing: Zelenskyy holds talks in Azerbaijan, Saudi Arabia on ‘security and energy’

    Ukraine ‘actively developing’ regional security arrangements for defence, food and energy, Zelenskyy says; Russia and Ukraine swap prisoners. What we know on day 1,522
  • Two people surveying landscape while filming Searching for Satyrus documentary.

    Searching for Satyrus review – on the hunt for an elusive butterfly and the lepidopterist who named them

    Rena Effendi attempts to find the species named after her wayward, womanising father – and a connection to the man she never knew – in this moving documentary
  • A close up of a woman with her hands in sharp focus in front of her with a butterfly above them also in sharp focus (her face and white sun hat are in soft focus in the background)

    Four wives, two passports and a very elusive butterfly: one woman’s search for her lepidopterist father

    Rena Effendi’s film Searching for Satyrus began with a quest for the endangered insect that bears her family name. Before long, she was reckoning with secrets, lies and the mysterious life of her wayward dad
  • Smoke above Beirut at night

    Israel launches huge strikes against south Beirut after mass evacuation order

  • Part of missile sticking out of field while two people look on, one with a motorbike

    Iran war briefing: Israeli military tells hundreds of thousands to leave Beirut

  • The strike would be the first Iranian attack on a Caucasus state since the start of the US-Israeli war on the country

    Iran denies responsibility for Azerbaijan drone strike – video

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  • Orange flames burst into the air from an explosion taking place behind trees at the far end of a car park, in which people are standing among a few parked cars

    Azerbaijan accuses Iran of ‘terrorist’ drone attack on airport that injured four people

February 2026

  • Two men walk past a sign that reads 'board of peace'

    Bodyguards for Azerbaijani president, in town for Trump’s Board of Peace, attack protesters in DC

  • Flagbearers Karina Akopova and Nikita Rakhmanin of Team Armenia enter with the team into the stadium during Friday’s opening ceremony of the Milano Cortina Olympics at San Siro Stadium.

    Olympic figure skating music dispute between Armenia and Azerbaijan resolved after ISU review

December 2025

  • a man in a suit facing the camera

    Trump pardons Democratic representative charged with bribery and conspiracy

    President claims Henry Cuellar was targeted by Joe Biden for being critical of his immigration policies

November 2025

  • A woman looks out of a window, the reflection of outside showing on the glass

    There Was, There Was Not review – how four women’s dreams are destroyed by the shock of war

    Emily Mkrtichian’s feature debut was shot in the now defunct republic of Artsakh, a tender, intimate meditation on the impermanence of life

October 2025

  • Azerbaijani president Ilham Aliyev meets Vladimir Putin in Dushanbe, Tajikistan.

    Putin admits Russian air defences were to blame for Azerbaijani jet crash

    Russian president said air defences were targeting a Ukrainian drone

September 2025

  • Keir Starmer

    ‘History will remember who showed up’: Keir Starmer faces call to attend Cop30 summit

    Response from leaders and key climate figures comes after PM’s aides advised non-attendance over concerns Reform may attack him

August 2025

  • Trump with Azerbaijan’s Ilham Aliyev (left) and Armenia’s Nikol Pashinyan.

    Iran and Russia stand to lose from US deal with Azerbaijan and Armenia

    Trump-brokered peace treaty predicted to suffocate geopolitical influence of Washington’s rivals in region
  • Azerbaijan's president, Ilham Aliyev, shakes hands with Armenia's prime minister, Nikol Pashinyan, as Donald Trump, in the middle, clasps his hands around theirs.

    Azerbaijan and Armenia sign peace deal at White House that creates a ‘Trump Route’ in region

    Deal to end four-decade conflict includes creation of transit corridor named ‘Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity’
  • Trump with Putin in Helsinki in 2018.

    US politics live with Shrai Popat
    Trump says he will meet Vladimir Putin in Alaska next Friday – as it happened

    President posts on Truth Social meeting with Russian counterpart will take place in Alaska
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