Wednesday 17 July 2024

Araz News

Azerbaijan National Resistance Organization News Website
araznews2010@gmail.com www.araznews.org

News Headlines:

Islamic State deputy leader ‘killed in Iraq air strike’ (video)

Araz News: The second-in-command of Islamic State (IS) has been killed in a US-led coalition air strike in northern Iraq, the Iraqi ministry of defence says. Abdul Rahman Mustafa Mohammed, also known as Abu Alaa al-Afari, was at a mosque near...

NATO wants political processes to bring results in Nagorno-Karabakh conflict

Araz News:  The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict was one of the key topics NATO official, James Appathurai commented on in his interview with AzerNews, where he discussed several issues – from energy cooperation to regional security. Appathurai, NATO Secretary General’s Special Representative...

30 days left before the start of European Games

BAKU, Azerbaijan Just 30 days are left to the start of the first European Games ‘Baku-2015’. Oxu.Az reports with reference to the Baku European Games Operating Committee, more than 6000 sportsmen will compete in 20 sports during the European Games....

Ahvazi Arabs report sewage contamination in water pipes

AHWAZ, Arabsitan (Southwest Iran) Araz News: Naser Sudaneh representative of the people of Ahvaz, Bavi and Hamidieh said in Parliament: “in this city instead of the water, wastewater is flowing in pipes.” According to the report of Araz News quoted from...

How China and Russia are teaming up to erode American dominance

Araz News: While the US military is still the biggest in the world, Beijing and Moscow are catching up. Here we look at the respective countries’ manpower. China has dispatched a convoy of warships for its first ever naval exercises in...

Azerbaijan allocates $545M for construction of Georgian section of BTK

BAKU, Azerbaijan Some $545 million has been allocated since the beginning of funding of the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars new railway project by the State Oil Fund of Azerbaijan (SOFAZ) (as of April 1, 2015), the message posted on the official website of...

Turkish government hires former CIA director for lobbying

Araz News: The Turkish government has hired former CIA Director Porter Goss for lobbying activities, according to a form filed with the US Department of Justice that was published online. The form, filed pursuant to the Foreign Agents Registration Act, was...

Azerbaijan to buy 10 planes from Ukraine

Araz News: Ukraine’s state enterprise, Antonov, the country’s sole aircraft producer, began the test flights of a new transport aircraft, An-178. The new plane’s solemn rollout was held in early April. “The test flight program has just kicked off, the plane...

Kim Jong-un oversees successful launch of North Korea’s first submarine missile

Araz News: PYONGYANG, North Korea – North Korea reported Saturday that it has successfully tested a submarine-launched missile, which would be a significant achievement in its military development if confirmed. The date and location of the test was not mentioned in...

US will provide weapon for Kurds if Baghdad refrains

Araz News: Former U.S. Ambassador to Baghdad Zalmay Khalilzad stated Washington would arm Iraqi Kurds if the central government in Baghdad refrains from sending the weapons Kurds need in fighting against the militants of the Islamic State (IS). Speaking with Rudaw,...

Armenia-Turkey reconciliation not on the horizon

Araz News: After the initial shock of Pope Francis’ remarks declaring that the mass killings ofArmenians under Ottoman rule in 1915 constitute genocide and the subsequent declarations by the European Parliament (EP) and leaders such as Russian President Vladimir Putin, the...

Yemen Houthi rebels ‘positive’ over Saudi truce plan

Araz News:  Rebels in Yemen say they will respond “positively” to a ceasefire offer by the Saudi-led coalition that has been carrying out air strikes against them. Saudi Arabia has offered a five-day truce starting on Tuesday, to allow the...

Baku hosts Flower Festival (PHOTO)

Araz News: The grand Flower Festival is being held in the park in front of the Heydar Aliyev Palace in Baku on May 10. The event is being held on the occasion of the 92nd birthday anniversary of Azerbaijani national leader...

Armenia apologizes to Georgia for a meeting in Karabakh

Araz News: The meeting of the speaker of Armenian parliament with a representative of a puppet regime in Tskhinvali is a very bad and dangerous tendency. Oxu.Az reports with reference to Gruziya online that the statement came from Georgian Foreign Minister...

100,000 tickets already sold for European Games

Araz News: 100,000 tickets have already been sold for the first European Games. According to Oxu.Az, the statement came from sources from the Operating Committee of the first European Games. By the information, the highest number of tickets was sold for...