Azerbaijani flag raised in Syrkhavend and Ballygaya villages

In a pointed discussion on the legacy of French diplomacy in the South Caucasus, an international conference convened in Baku on Friday to assess France’s role in the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict. The event, organized by the Center for the Analysis of International Relations, highlighted long-standing grievances over what many in Azerbaijan see as Paris’s historical bias in favor of Armenia.

The Commissioner for Human Rights of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Sabina Aliyeva, has sent an open letter to the Executive Director of Human Rights Watch (HRW), Tirana Hassan, expressing her disagreement with the organization’s latest report on the human rights situation in the country.

U.S. President Donald Trump held first press conference in the White House briefing room Wednesday morning, hours after an Army helicopter collided with a passenger jet in Washington DC, claiming 67 lives.

Activist Jlala Dzhavadov has been detained. The young man stopped responding to calls on Thursday from 4 p.m.