Security

On June 19, the central office of Azneft Production Union, part of SOCAR, received information about traces of oil contamination observed in the Dubendi beach area in Baku’s Khazar district. According...

What the Absheron tragedy says about Azerbaijan’s healthcare system The death of a 17-year-old girl following a road accident on the Baku–Sumgait highway has once again brought one of the most sensiti...

Azerbaijan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has once again urged the country’s citizens to avoid traveling to foreign conflict zones and reminded them that participation in foreign armed formations carri...

At a time when public services, banking operations, and everyday life are moving ever deeper into the digital sphere, Azerbaijan is undertaking its most significant cybersecurity reform in recent year...

Corruption has remained one of the central topics of public debate in Azerbaijan for many years. In recent years, local and international media outlets have widely reported various allegations of corr...

In early 2026, Azerbaijan — long regarded as relatively stable in terms of internal security — began to show signs of a deeper and more complex transformation. Despite an overall decline in crime, one...

The crime profile in Azerbaijan in the first quarter of 2026 indicates a continued decline in the overall number of offenses, despite a gradual shift toward more complex and technology-driven crimes f...

Poisoning represents a persistent yet undercharacterized public health challenge in Azerbaijan, situated at the intersection of environmental legacy, regulatory fragmentation, and socio-economic trans...

In 2025, the total volume of waste in Azerbaijan reached 4,426.4 thousand tons, marking a 1.4% increase compared to the previous year. This indicates not only the expansion of economic activity in the...

A rare wave of critical reporting in Azerbaijan’s pro-government media has drawn attention to Prime Minister Ali Asadov, prompting analysts to question elite dynamics within a tightly controlled polit...

Long-term research and observations show that in recent years, as a result of global climate change, the frequency and intensity of extremely hot weather, heavy rainfall, and hail events have increase...

The war in Iran has exposed a number of serious security challenges that will remain at the center of attention for countries in the region in the coming years. This is the general view of several mil...

In a city where the wind from the Caspian Sea has long been part of everyday life, a new threat comes not from land or sea, but from above — in the form of heavy rains that increasingly turn the stree...

The Institute for Economics and Peace has published its report, Global Terrorism Index 2026. According to the report, Azerbaijan is classified among countries with a low level of terrorist risk. The d...

The latest wave of torrential rain that paralysed roads, flooded underpasses and submerged entire neighbourhoods of Azerbaijan’s capital no longer looks like merely a story of climate instability. In...

The rapid adoption of artificial intelligence is reshaping Azerbaijan’s digital economy, but it is also accelerating the evolution of cyber fraud, exposing structural weaknesses in financial systems,...