“The number of internet users in Azerbaijan is more than 80 percent. Can you imagine the restriction of media in a country where the internet is free, there is no censorship, and there are 80% of internet users?” President Ilham Aliyev tells the BBC journalist. With India facing a severe COVID-19 crisis, Western media has descended upon the country like vultures, trying to photograph every... 

Azerbaijan’s long-time leader, Ilham Aliyev, has officially opened a museum dedicated to the country’s victory over neighboring Armenia in a series of bloody battles that claimed the lives of thousands of soldiers on both sides. On Monday, the presidential press service released a series of photographs showing the leader inspecting captured hardware and equipment, and a video of him addressing... 

A top Azerbaijani official confirms his country has deployed Israeli-made military drones to combat areas in the contested Nagorno-Karabakh region, and praises Israel’s Harop drone in particular as “very effective.” Israeli technology “helps Azerbaijan to provide security and safety to its nationals,” Hikmet Hajiyev, a top foreign policy adviser to President Ilham Aliyev, tells the Israeli... 

Russian President Vladimir Putin came to Baku to participate in the Russian-Azerbaijani interregional forum. Putin will also attend the final stage of the World Judo Championship. However, behind closed doors, Putin and his Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliyev also discussed topics of military-technical cooperation, the CSTO, as well as issues of the settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict. The... 

Azerbaijani military officer Ramil Safarov lays flowers at Martyrs’ Alley national memorial in the capital Baku on August 31, 2012. Armenia has expressed readiness for a war with its arch-foe, the Republic of Azerbaijan, after Baku pardoned and promoted an Azerbaijani officer who axed an Armenian soldier to death. “We don’t want a war, but if we have to, we will fight and win. We are... 

A file picture taken on April 13, 2006 shows Azerbaijani army officer Ramil Safarov listening to the verdict, a conviction of life imprisonment for hacking to death an Armenian lieutenant while attending a NATO-sponsored training course in Budapest. Armenia has announced that it is cutting all its diplomatic relations with Hungary after Budapest released an Azeri soldier convicted of killing an Armenian...