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Mayor Vows to Compensate Yerevan For $20,000 Air Ticket
Dec 25, 2024 · By Gayane Saribekian. YEREVAN (Azatutyun.am) — Amid an uproar from his political opponents and media, Yerevan Mayor Tigran Avinyan said on Monday, December 23 that he will pay the municipal administration about $20,000 to cover the exorbitant cost of his recent flight to the United States.
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WATERTOWN — Arsinée Keusseyan of Watertown, MA, passed away peacefully at age 93 on December 21, 2024. She was born in Iskenderoun (formerly Syria, now Turkey).
Pashinyan, Aliyev Meet in Kazan at BRICS Summit
Oct 29, 2024 · By Shoghik Galstian YEREVAN (Azatutyun) — Yerevan is satisfied with the recent negotiations between Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev that yielded some “tangible results” and marked progress in the peace process between the two South Caucasus nations, an ally of the Armenian leader has revealed.
Creating a Pan-Armenian Structure for National Survival Now Is ...
4 days ago · By Dr. Arshavir Gundjian, C.M. Special to the Mirror-Spectator. The year 2024 is coming to its end. Like all perceptive people, the Armenian people as well, are stunned, witnessing every day increasingly shocking political developments that take place from the East to the West and in-between, and that just a short time ago was considered to be almost impossible.
Anti-Government Forces Overtake Most of Aleppo, as Armenian …
Dec 3, 2024 · Syria has been engulfed in an all-out civil war since 2011, with Aleppo, Syria’s second-largest city, becoming the site of a major siege lasting between 2012–2016, resulting in the Syrian regime successfully winning control of the city with Russian air support.
Markey, Whitehouse, and Pallone Lead Congressional Calls at …
Nov 21, 2024 · BAKU/WASHINGTON, DC — Amid Aliyev-government repression and intimidation during the COP29 climate conference in Baku — with their personal safety on the line — Senators Ed Markey (D-MA) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Congressional Armenian Caucus founding Co-Chair Frank Pallone (D-NJ) championed the right of return of Artsakh’s ethnically cleansed Armenian population, and advocated ...
Archbishop Expresses Cautious Hope for Syria and Syrian …
Dec 15, 2024 · WATERTOWN/ALEPPO — The incredibly swift end in December to the slow-churning, devastating, decade-long Syrian Civil War caught both Syrians and the rest of the world by surprise.. Ahmed al-Sharaa (nom de guerre Abu Mohammad al-Jolani), the leader of the rebel group Hayat Tahrir al-Shams (HTS), an Al Qaeda offshoot, led the surprising and winning push, which took Aleppo in late November ...
Could Aliyev Collapse like Assad? - The Armenian Mirror-Spectator
Dec 12, 2024 · The Assad family, father and son, dominated Syria for more than a half century. The last 13 years in Syria were chaotic, but diplomats from both the moderate Arab camp and Europe believed that since Bashar al-Assad and the Syrian army had won the civil war after recapturing much of northwestern Syria in 2016, that rapprochement was just a matter of time.