This sponsored content was created in collaboration with a Skift partner. Azerbaijan has a history as a Silk Road trading post, is home to sites that speak to its surprising Jewish, German, and Polish ...

Indian Ambassador Abhay Kumar inaugurated a cultural exhibition in Baku, highlighting the deep civilizational ties between India and Azerbaijan. The event featured art, dance, and discussions on ...

Around 3am on September 27, my phone buzzed with messages that Azerbaijan had launched an aerial assault on Nagorno-Karabakh — the landlocked, mountainous enclave in the south Caucasus populated and ...

After several decades of legal commentary (or rather, lamentations) that UNESCO lacks proper enforcement mechanisms to protect cultural heritage and punish states for their intentional destruction of ...

Baku announced -- then partly walked back -- steps to remove what it calls "fictitious traces” of Armenian heritage from churches now under Azerbaijani control in and around the Nagorno-Karabakh ...

Irada Akhoundova remembers when the Soviet military rumbled outside her house. It was late 1991, post-perestroika, pre-independence, and Akhoundova, a principal of one of the schools of the Azerbaijan ...

On 25 December 2023, the Azerbaijan parliament (the Milli Majlis) passed a declaration claiming that, in what is currently Armenia, there was previously an Azerbaijani community that was displaced by ...

Tea is taken in bazaars across the country, where tea-sellers still walk the streets of the city serving the drink to traders and their customers - Copyright AFP Ozan ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Last September, the Amaras Monastery, one of Christianity's oldest ...

Vanishing church in Nagorno-Karabakh highlights feared erasure of Christian heritage, but also countercharge of destructive occupation. Update (April 24): President Joe Biden has officially declared ...