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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 339

Armenia

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan addresses a media conference at EU headquarters in Brussels, April 4, 2024. (Johanna Geron, Pool Photo via AP, File)
June 21, 2024, 3:25 pm
Armenia recognizes Palestinian statehood; Israel summons ambassador for reprimand
Move follows similar ones by Slovenia, Spain, Ireland and Norway, with 145 UN member states now recognizing ‘State of Palestine’; statement affirms support for two-state solution
By ToI Staff
Former Israeli president Reuven Rivlin, left, shakes hands with French-Armenian singer Charles Aznavour on October 26, 2017 at the presidential compound in Jerusalem. (GALI TIBBON/AFP)
December 29, 2023, 2:23 am
New museum in Armenia to tell story of Charles Aznavour, French crooner who loved Jews
Tribute to Time Magazine’s entertainer of the 20th century will include accounts of unpublicized WWII heroism, including harboring Jews and members of French underground in Paris
By Larry Luxner
Red paint is seen smeared on the facade of the Mordechay Navi Jewish Religious Center in Yerevan, Armenia, following a suspected antisemitic incident on October 3, 2023. (CER)
October 4, 2023, 5:30 pm
Synagogue vandalized in Armenia, apparently over Israeli-Azeri ties
‘The Jews are the sworn enemies of the Armenian state,’ reads text that circulates after red paint poured on Yerevan’s only Jewish center
By Canaan Lidor
Armenian refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh are seen in the center of the town of Goris on September 30, 2023 before being evacuated in various Armenian cities. (Diego Herrera Carcedo/AFP)
October 2, 2023, 11:01 pm
Israel among Armenia’s geopolitical concerns after Nagorno-Karabakh collapse
The fall of the breakaway statelet could shift the balance of power in the region
By Joris FIORITI
Armenian refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh are seen in the center of the town of Goris on September 30, 2023 before being evacuated in various Armenian cities. (Diego Herrera Carcedo/AFP)
October 1, 2023, 1:34 am
90% of ethnic Armenians flee Karabakh enclave overrun by Azerbaijan army
100,417 people have entered Armenia since September 24, according to local authorities; 120,000 Armenians lived in enclave before Azerbaijani offensive last week
By Thibault MARCHAND
A truck with refugees on board rides on the road between Kornidzor and Goris on September 28, 2023. Armenia on September 26, 2023, said 28,120 refugees have so far arrived from Nagorno-Karabakh, a majority ethnic Armenian breakaway enclave defeated in a lightning offensive by Azerbaijan last week. (ALAIN JOCARD / AFP)
September 28, 2023, 10:47 am
Breakaway republic of Karabakh says it will cease to ‘exist’
Announcement comes after military defeat by Azerbaijan and departure of over half of the population
By AFP
Screen capture from video shows smoke rising after a fuel depot explosion near Stepanakert, Nagorno-Karabakh, September 25, 2023. (Twitter via AP)
September 26, 2023, 11:09 am
At least 20 dead, 200 injured in Nagorno-Karabakh fuel depot explosion
Local official say victims were lining up for fuel to join thousands of others fleeing to Armenia following Azerbaijani military rout of Armenian forces in separatist region
By Agencies
In this photo taken from video released by the Defense Ministry of Azerbaijan on September 20, 2023, smoke rises over an area which Azerbaijan says hosts Armenian forces' positions in the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh. (Defense Ministry of Azerbaijan via AP)
September 20, 2023, 4:34 pm
Azerbaijan halts operation in breakaway region as Armenian separatists vow to disarm
Ceasefire announced day after Azeri forces launch offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh; director of Israel’s Defense Ministry, a major arms supplier to Baku, visited just before fighting
By AFP and ToI Staff
Armenian Prime minister Nikol Pashinyan delivers his speech at the National Assembly of Armenia in Yerevan, Armenia, September 13, 2022. (Tigran Mehrabyan/PAN Photo via AP)
September 19, 2023, 12:51 am
In unusual move, rabbis in Europe condemn Armenian Holocaust comparisons
A letter cosigned by more than 100 rabbis accuses Armenia of distorting the genocide’s memory to hurt the reputation of its rival, Azerbaijan
By Canaan Lidor
Mayor Einat Kalisch-Rotem and members of the Armenian Christian community of Haifa during the renaming ceremony of the Armenian Genocide Square in Haifa, Israel on March 20. (Haifa Municipality)
April 4, 2023, 5:29 pm
Turkey’s feathers ruffled by Haifa’s newly unveiled Armenian Genocide Square
The northern city, where many ethnic Armenians live, is the first Israeli municipality to give such recognition to the World War I atrocities
By Canaan Lidor
Rabbi Gershon Burshteyn, spiritual leader of the Mordechay Navi Jewish Religious Center of Armenia, seen outside the center he leads. (Larry Luxner)
October 23, 2022, 2:27 am
Armenia has had few Jews and a poor relationship with Israel. That could be changing
Most of the Jewish community fled in the early 20th century, and Israeli-Azerbaijani relations have been a damper, but ancient ties and renewed diplomacy sow hope for the future
By Larry Luxner
In this image taken from a YouTube footage released by Armenian Defense Ministry, Azerbaijanian servicemen cross the Armenian-Azerbaijani border and approaching the Armenian positions, September 13, 2022. (Armenian Defense Ministry via AP)
September 14, 2022, 9:23 am
Death toll reaches 99 in fresh Armenia-Azerbaijan flareup
Armenia loses 49 soldiers, Azerbaijan 50, in renewed conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh; UN, Russia urge calm
By AVET DEMOURIAN and VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV
In this image taken from video released by the Armenian Defense Ministry on Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2020, Armenian solders guard their position in the self-proclaimed Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijan. (Armenian Defense Ministry via AP)
March 27, 2022, 1:46 am
Russia accuses Azerbaijan of breaking ceasefire in conflict with Armenia
Moscow says Azerbaijani troops entered Russian peacekeeping zone in Nagorno-Karabakh, in first public blame for breaking deal after 2020 war
By AFP
Yan Andrayev (Facebook)
January 29, 2022, 3:59 pm
Israeli held in Armenia in case family says is political payback by Putin
Yan Andrayev, 56, a resident of Holon and a former mayor of a small Russian town nearly 200 miles from Moscow, reportedly awaits extradition to Russia
By ToI Staff
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan speaks to media after his talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Monday, Jan. 11, 2021. (Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
February 25, 2021, 11:45 am
Armenian PM faces military’s demand to resign, alleges coup
Facing protests after defeat in Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Nikol Pashinyan urged to step down by General Staff; calling it a coup attempt, he fires military chief
By AP
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