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Armenian prisoners of war returning to Yerevan in February 2021. The photo was published by the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. [21] In December 2020, Armenia and Azerbaijan have begun exchanging groups of prisoners of war mediated by Russia. [22] As of February 2022, 150 prisoners, including civilians, returned to Armenia and ...
The First Nagorno-Karabakh War, also known as the Artsakh Liberation War in Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh, was an armed conflict that took place in the late 1980s to May 1994, in the enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh in southwestern Azerbaijan, between the majority ethnic Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh backed by the Republic of Armenia, and the ...
The wall with images of fallen Armenian soldiers. According to Artsakhian President, mainly 18–20 year old soldiers fought in hostilities. [211] The Armenian authorities stated that 85 Armenian civilians were killed during the war, [c] while another 21 were missing. [57]
Turkish–Armenian War: September–December 1920 First Republic of Armenia: Turkish Nationalist forces: 60,000 [13] –198,000 [14] Sumgait pogrom: February 1988 Sumgayit, Soviet Azerbaijan: Azerbaijani mobs 26 (official) to 200 [15] (nonofficial sources) Kirovabad pogrom: November 1988 Kirovabad, Soviet Azerbaijan: Azerbaijani mobs
The Deir ez-Zor camps were concentration camps [1] in the heart of the Syrian Desert in which many thousands of Armenian refugees were forced into death marches during the Armenian genocide. The United States vice-consul in Aleppo , Jesse B. Jackson , estimated that Armenian refugees, as far east as Deir ez-Zor and south of Damascus , numbered ...
The 2016 Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, also known as the Four-Day War, [a] April War, [24] [25] [26] [b] or April clashes, [c] began along the former Nagorno-Karabakh line of contact on 1 April 2016 with the Artsakh Defence Army, backed by the Armenian Armed Forces, on one side and the Azerbaijani Armed Forces on the other.
On 10 October, Armenian media reported the killing of two civilians in Hadrut, a mother and her son with a disability, according to Armenia the killing would have been carried out by Azerbaijani infiltrators. [34] [35] Armenian authorities reported 85 Armenian civilians were killed [36] and 21 were missing in the war. [4]
Kyaram or Qyaram Sloyan (Armenian: Քյարամ Սլոյան; 27 April 1996 – 1/2 April 2016) was an Artsakh Defense Army soldier who was killed during the 2016 Armenian–Azerbaijani clashes. After his death, he was beheaded, [1] [2] with videos and pictures showing Azerbaijani soldiers posing with his severed head posted on social networks.