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Members of the Armenian community attend a memorial march marking the 100th anniversary of the mass killings of 1.5 million Armenians by Ottoman Turkish forces in Jerusalem's Old City April 23, 2015.
Corpses of murdered Armenians lying beside the road during the Armenian Genocide committed by the Ottoman Empire, 1915-1917; illustrative.

In first for Israeli PM, Netanyahu recognizes Armenian Genocide on Patrick Bet-David's podcast

Netanyahu, when pushed by Patrick Bet-David, himself an ethnic Armenian, to personally recognize the Ottoman massacre of Armenians in 1915-1917 as genocide, said, "I just did."

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Visitors seen at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial museum in Jerusalem on May 2, 2024, ahead of Israeli Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Holocaust Remembrance Day and Armenian genocide: A moment of shared remembrance - opinion

This shared date should stir more than remembrance. It should inspire a deep sense of kinship between two ancient peoples who have both endured existential trauma.

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Arch at Station 9 on Way of the Cross near Coptic Patriarchate in Old City of Jerusalem.

Armenian genocide survivors in Syria face new threats, warns Jerusalem Church

Their churches, schools, and homes have come under fire in the ongoing civil war, and the fear of further displacement looms once again.

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Turkey's Acik Radyo silenced as broadcast license revoked amid free speech concerns

The station was suspended in May and fined after a guest, speaking on April 24, referred to the massacre of Armenians under the Ottoman Empire in 1915 as genocide.

OCTOBER 17, 2024ByREUTERS
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan speaks after a signing ceremony in Ankara, Turkey September 4, 2024.

Armenia’s recognition of Palestine was not anti-Israel - opinion

These are testing times for Armenian-Israeli relations, but we should navigate these rough waters to harness our many shared assets.

JULY 3, 2024ByGRIGOR HOVHANNISSIAN
Protesters gather near the government building, after Azerbaijan launched a military operation in the region of Nagorno-Karabakh, in Yerevan, Armenia, September 19, 2023

Israel must recognize the Armenian Genocide now more than ever - comment

The Broad Perspective: If Israel wants to be recognized on the international stage as a voice of sanity and of legitimate morality, it must put the ego aside and recognize the Armenian Genocide.

JUNE 28, 2024ByTAMAR URIEL-BEERI
Members of the Armenian diaspora rally in front of the Turkish Embassy after U.S. President Joe Biden recognized that the 1915 massacres of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire constituted genocide in Washington, U.S., April 24, 2021.

Israeli weapons are killing peaceful civilians, Armenian envoy tells 'Post'

In an exclusive interview, ambassador Arman Akopian describes the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh from his country's perspective.

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023ByMAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN
Armenian Ambassador to Israel Arman Akopian

Three quarters of Karabakh population already out in swift exodus

Azerbaijan says it will respect the rights of ethnic Armenians who choose to stay, but that it has destroyed the concept of a breakaway state forever.

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023ByREUTERS
Refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh, a region inhabited by ethnic Armenians, make a drink on a roadside as they queue to reach the Armenian border, in Nagorno-Karabakh, September 26, 2023.

Ethnic Armenians will leave Nagorno-Karabakh

Azerbaijan says it will guarantee their rights and integrate the region but the leadership of the Armenians in Karabakh stated that they would leave.

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023ByREUTERS
Protesters gather near the government building, after Azerbaijan launched a military operation in the region of Nagorno-Karabakh, in Yerevan, Armenia, September 19, 2023

Armenia and Azerbaijan to hold peace settlement talks in Washington on Sunday

Despite years of attempted mediation between them, Armenia and Azerbaijan have yet to reach a peace agreement.

APRIL 29, 2023ByREUTERS
Azerbaijan's Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov attends a joint news conference with French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna in Baku, Azerbaijan April 27, 2023

Armenians mark genocide amid new threats, fresh skirmishes with Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan has been blockading the enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh for months, in what many Armenians and some US politicians call the beginnings of a new genocide.

APRIL 27, 2023ByNICOLE JANSEZIAN/THE MEDIA LINE
Armenians arrive at Tsitsernakaberd, the Armenian Genocide Memorial complex in Yerevan on April 24, 2023, to mark the 108th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide.

Five dead in new Azerbaijan-Armenia clash over Karabakh

Azerbaijan's defense ministry said Azerbaijani troops stopped a convoy it suspected of carrying weapons from the region's main town to outlying areas.

MARCH 5, 2023ByREUTERS
ARMENIAN SOLDIERS ride in the back of a truck in the breakaway region of Nagorno Karabakh last week. The Caucasus region experienced several rounds of conflict after the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia is one of the most notable disputes.

The US needs to send a strong message for Russia - opinion

Azerbaijan has implemented a blockade on the only road connecting Nagorno-Karabakh with Armenia; which has rapidly become a humanitarian crisis. 

JANUARY 3, 2023BySTEPHAN PECHDIMALDJI
US President Joe Biden welcomes Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to the White House, last month

The shame I feel as an Armenian Jew - opinion

The author expresses his thoughts and opinions on the Israel and Azerbaijan alliance.

OCTOBER 13, 2022ByNICHOLAS PORTNOY
AZERBAIJANI PRESIDENT Ilham Aliyev (right) is welcomed by Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala at an EU summit in Prague in October 2022.