Baku and Yerevan in contact on security issues after the strike on Nakhchivan

Azerbaijan said on Thursday it had thwarted a series of planned attacks linked to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), targeting energy infrastructure, diplomatic facilities and religious sites, in what authorities described as a major counter-terrorism operation amid heightened regional tensions.

President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev on Thursday signed a decree introducing amendments to a number of presidential orders regulating preferential financing in the agricultural sector and expanding support for farmers.

The Baku Grave Crimes Court held another hearing in the criminal case of Kenan Zeynalov (Kenan Basqal), a member of the Azerbaijan Popular Front Party.

Azerbaijan’s Minister of Digital Development and Transport, Rashad Nabiyev, held talks with representatives of the American software company Palantir Technologies during a visit to the United Kingdom, discussing potential cooperation in data integration, artificial intelligence and cybersecurity, the ministry said.