A court in Baku has sentenced two Azerbaijani men to life in prison for spying for Iran. Hafiz Valiyev and Agamir Agamirov were officially found guilty of high treason on August 1 and sentenced the same day. Investigators say they...
The U.S. military launched two rounds of airstrikes Friday in northwestern Iraq, using drones and fighter jets. Pentagon spokesman Rear Admiral John Kirby said remotely piloted aircraft Friday struck Islamic State militants near Irbil. He said fighter planes later dropped...
Araz News: An Iranian theater team named Shahr Ashub has apologized Azerbaijani people for an insulting play it had performed. The group has also changed the name of the play. The group was being performing a play named “Kharkator” which...
An exile Uyghur leader has claimed that at least 2,000 ethnic minority Uyghurs may have been killed by Chinese security forces following riots last week in a restive county in China’s western Xinjiang region, far more than reported by the...
The National Resistance Organization of Azerbaijan (ANRO) recently published a documentary on the dire situation in Iraq and possible implications on the cities of South Azerbaijan (Northwestern Iran). According to ArazNews, thousands of copies of the report were...
The details of the intensive firefights between the Azerbaijani and Armenian armed forces in the direction of Terter region on the night of August 2 have become known. The servicemen, who are responsible for the defense of this territory,...
Armenian armed forces have made an attempt of diversion on different sections of the front. 8 Azerbaijani soldiers were killed as a result of fierce fire exchange. All the same, the Armenian public was fluttered by the reports of Armenian...
Araz News: Municipality of Urmia, capital of West Azerbaijan Province, gives back old Turkic names of some neighborhoods. Several signboards are put at the entrance of city’s old neighborhoods carrying the old names. Municipality resources inform the act is carried...
Report says men with knives attack police station in western region, leading to civilian casualties and deadly response. Dozens of people have been killed and injured in an attack in China’s far western Xinjiang region, home to the mainly Muslim...
Araz News: Gorbanali Saadat, governor of West Azerbaijan province expressed about 6 million people are living around Lake Urmia and unless something done for it these people will be forced to displace. South Azerbaijani website, Oyrenci Sesi (Voice of Student)...
Araz News: A committee of representatives of non-Persian nations and religious minorities in Iran met US secretary of state human rights officials in Washington DC on 24 July. Araz News correspondent from Washington DC reports that there were representatives of...
“Times of differences between world powers come and go”. Oxu.Az interviews Adil Baguirov, doctor of political science, co-founder and member of the directors’ board of the US Azeris Network and Karabakh Foundation (the United States). The US congressmen have recently...
Araz News: Prominent Iraqi Turkmen Figure,researcher and writer Sadun KÖPRÜLÜ has passed away in Ankara. The former Iraqi Turkmen Front’s reprehensive in Turkey was imprisoned 17 years in Iraq’s prisons in the time of ousted dictator Saddam Hussein. ANRO’s Media...
Araz News: Azerbaijani right activists have visited Eastern Turkistan’s leader Mrs. Rebiya Kadeer in US capital, Washington DC. Azerbaijani activists shared current problems of South Azerbaijan with Mrs. Kadeer. Activists Mr. Zaur Bayramli, Babek Chalabiyanli, Babek Chalabiyanli, Taymaz Urmulu and...
Araz News: Prominent South Azerbaijani researcher, writer, turcologist and surgeon, Prof. Dr. Javad Heyat is in critical health condition. Reportedly, 89-year-old well-known figure is hospitalized in a hospital in Baku, capital of Republic of Azerbaijan. South Azerbaijani public follows his...
