Araz News: South Azerbaijani sources report thousands of people have participated in anti-terrorism protest demonstration in Urmia, West Azerbaijan, on Thursday, 16th October. But Iranian police has cracked down on demonstrators and stopped the nonviolent demonstration by force. Eye witnesses...
Araz News: In his fifth live address president Rouhani stated salt storms rising from dried Lake Urmia can blow ten provinces of Iran. “Lakes we lost, like Hamoun, will not come back easily, but we think about them. I really...
Araz News: One day before mass anti-terror rally in Urmia, the support of that has widened thoroughly. While thousands of call leaflets has been distributed in the Urmia city, nearly all Azerbaijani web sites, Facebook pages and bloggers are making...
By Umud Duzgun The latest scientific study posits the location for the legendary Garden of Eden in South Azerbaijan (now northwestern Iran), in the vicinity of Tabriz upon which the Genesis tradition was based. According to the British archaeologist Davis...
Araz News: South Azerbaijani activists make calls for demonstration against armed terrorist organizations in West Azerbaijan. According to announcements published in South Azerbaijani web sites a public rally is being planned to be take place on 16th October, Thursday in...
None of the movements that surfaced during the Syrian civil war share a longer history with the Assad regime than the PKK, whose ties to Damascus were formed as early as 1979 and remain positively active until PKK founder Abdullah...
The White House confirmed on Saturday that US Vice President Joe Biden spoke with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to apologize over his recent ISIS comments made at Harvard University. “The vice president apologized for any implication that Turkey or...
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Turkish Parliament has voted in favor of the deployment of cross-border troops to Iraq and Syria to fight ISIS and other terrorist organizations The Turkish Parliament on late Thursday has voted in favor of the deployment of cross-border troops to...
Araz News: US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has published a secret archive document about Azerbaijan National Government (1945-1946). The document is a secret report written in 1947. The report represents American point of view which was on the side of...
Fakhteh Luna Zamani The right to receiving education in one’s mother tongue is a civil right and a human right that is stressed in a number of international human rights documents and conventions such as Universal Declaration of Linguistic...
Araz Newws: UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ahmed Shaheed has given information about Lake Urmia environmental disaster, in his October 2014 report. The report informs that while according to official...
Araz News: US Department of State Persian-language spokesman, Alan Eyre told he supports Azerbaijan’s Tractor-Sazi Football Club. Mr. Eyre was quest of “Politic” video program of “Radio Free Europe, Radio Liberty” and answered questions of program director Kambiz Hosseini. Replying...
A determined Catalonia has formally called an independence referendum and has set the date for 9 November, putting it on a collision course with the Spanish government. Catalan President Artur Mas signed the decree in a ceremony at the regional...
Araz News: Iranian vice president for ethnicities and minorities’ affairs and the former minister of intelligence, Ali Younesi in an interview with Asr-e Azadi newspaper explained his viewpoints about ethnicities and minorities in Iran. In the reportage he stated: “We...