New York, October 30, 2014–A court in Azerbaijan today sentenced Khalid Garayev, a reporter for the embattled opposition newspaper Azadliq and the technical director of “Azerbaijani Hour,” Azadliq‘s online TV program, to almost a month in prison on charges of hooliganism and disobeying the police, according tonews reports. The Binagadi District Court in Baku found […]

By MARK LANDLEROCT. 29, 2014 WASHINGTON — One day this month, as the nation shuddered with fears of an Ebola outbreak and American warplanes pounded Sunni militants in Syria, President Obama’s national security adviser, Susan E. Rice, invited a group of foreign policy experts to the White House to hear their views of how the […]

WASHINGTON — As he gazed at the thousands of mourners gathered in the majestic Washington National Cathedral in 2001, it occurred to Benjamin C. Bradlee that his friend and fellow journalism giant, Katharine Graham, would have appreciated the grand send-off. “What a way to go,” he said. “Not bad at all.” Thirteen years later, the […]

Azerbaijan will support the UN Foundation. Azerbaijan will assist the UN Global Fund to fight with the “Ebola” virus. Oxu.Az reports citing APA that the aid is allocated on the orders of the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev. The aid was set in the amount of $ 1m.

In the early morning hours of July 3, one of the two top commanders of Al Qaeda in Syria summoned me from my jail cell. For nearly two years, he had kept me locked in a series of prisons. That night, I was driven from a converted schoolroom outside the eastern city of Deir al-Zour, […]

The mediation format of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict resolution led by the United States, France and Russia coordinates actions aimed at the peaceful settlement of the conflict. The presidents of these countries have expressed their consolidated approach in five consecutive statements. The summit meetings in Russia in August, in Wales this month and another in France […]