Mehman Aliyev

The downing of an Azerbaijani passenger plane over Grozny on December 26, 2024, has drawn significant attention, raising serious concerns about Russia's crisis management.

On July 1, 2024, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) de jure ended its 33-year presence in Azerbaijan, closing a chapter that began in the early days of the country’s indepe...

The signing of a strategic partnership agreement between the United States and Armenia on January 14  marks a pivotal shift in the geopolitics of the South Caucasus, one of the world's most complex an...

In a five-minute video uploaded to his Instagram account this week, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced a radical shift in the company’s content moderation policies, signaling the end of its fact-check...

President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan gave an extensive televised interview on January 7 to pro-government broadcasters, a format underscoring the tightly controlled media environment in the country. N...

Tensions between Russia and several former Soviet republics have reached a boiling point, with Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan increasingly diverging from Moscow’s leadership. Over recent weeks...

In 2024, violence against women in Azerbaijan remained a pressing issue, attracting significant public and political attention. Despite notable progress, systemic challenges persist, underscoring the...

As 2024 comes to a close, Azerbaijan finds itself at the crossroads of rapid political, economic, and social changes. The year was marked by key events that highlighted the country's ambitions and cha...

In a world that often measures revolutions by their ability to disrupt, Syria’s journey, which began with the Arab Spring of 2011, represents a chronicle of shifting ideologies, geopolitical maneuvers...

In a gesture as symbolic as it is surreal, authorities in the suburban settlement of Buzovna recently unveiled a monument in the form of a rusted trash bin, meant to signify the deeply entrenched corr...