Security

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,...

The unfolding confrontation around Iran inevitably invites comparisons with the second Karabakh war of 2020 — a conflict that reshaped modern perceptions of warfare through its speed, technological in...

When Azerbaijan’s cabinet of ministers decided in March to extend the country’s special quarantine regime until July 1, the formal explanation sounded familiar. The regulation dates back to the COVID-...

As the international order grows more brittle, Azerbaijan has once again used Baku not simply as a capital, but as a stage — a place where former presidents, ministers, diplomats and policy thinkers g...

Six days after the drone attack on Nakhchivan, the question of who was responsible for the operation remains open. Immediately after the incident, officials in Tehran suggested that Israel might be be...

Azerbaijan has moved to strengthen its civil defense preparedness amid growing regional security tensions, approving new rules aimed at informing the population about how to respond to the potential u...

Ilham Aliyev on Feb. 23 signed into law the ratification of the “United Nations Convention against Cybercrime,” strengthening Azerbaijan’s legal framework for cross-border investigations of digital cr...

The meeting of Azerbaijan’s Commission on Combating Corruption held on February 15 was, formally, technical in nature. Proposals to enhance transparency were discussed, along with a draft framework fo...

In a case that has come to symbolize the consequences of the long-running conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh, an Azerbaijani military court on February 17 sentenced Armenian businessman and political figure...

The use of personal and intimate information as a weapon in political struggle is not new in Azerbaijan. What is new is the scale, speed and deniability introduced by artificial intelligence, which is...

One year after a passenger jet operated by Azerbaijan Airlines fell from the sky near the Kazakh city of Aktau, killing 38 people, the preliminary investigation report published last week was expected...

The decision to place the Internal Troops directly under the president, while simultaneously expanding their authority into areas traditionally overseen by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Sta...

In recent days, there has been a surge in reports in the Azerbaijani media related to events surrounding former Presidential Administration head Ramiz Mehdiyev. Most of these publications are unoffici...

The arrest of Ramiz Mehdiyev, once the powerful head of the Azerbaijani Presidential Administration and long regarded as a key link between Baku and Moscow, has sparked speculation that his downfall m...