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Serzh Sargsyan acknowledges Armenia's war crimes against Azerbaijan

Serzh Sargsyan acknowledges Armenia's war crimes against Azerbaijan

The ex-president of Armenia, one of the instigators of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict Serzh Sargsyan confirmed the facts of the war crimes committed by Yerevan against the civilian population of Azerbaijan during the Second Karabakh War, speaking …

Russia detains 19 militants planning attacks in North Caucasus

Russia detains 19 militants planning attacks in North Caucasus

Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Wednesday it had detained 19 suspected Islamist militants planning attacks in the North Caucasus. The FSB said it had seized a suicide belt, homemade bombs and automatic weapons from …

FSB exposes terrorist cell in Russia’s Dagestan region

FSB exposes terrorist cell in Russia’s Dagestan region

Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has exposed a two-member terrorist cell in the Dagestan region, the FSB said in a statement on Saturday, TASS reports. "On February 5, FSB officers in the Republic of Dagestan carried …

Kadyrov: criminal underworld wiped out in Chechnya

Kadyrov: criminal underworld wiped out in Chechnya

Chechnya’s leader Ramzan Kadyrov said Wednesday that his forces have killed six suspected militants, including a warlord accused of organizing a 2011 suicide attack at a Moscow airport. Kadyrov said that troops under his …

Russia Says Intercepted IS Attack Plot

Russia Says Intercepted IS Attack Plot

Russia's FSB security service said Saturday it had foiled an attack planned by a cell loyal to the Islamic State (IS) jihadist group in the country's unstable southern republic of Dagestan, arresting four people, Sputnik …

Armenian terrorists from Syria attacking Russia?

Armenian terrorists from Syria attacking Russia?

Armenian terrorists are hatching plans to destabilize the situation in the region once again - an Armenian battalion operating as part of the PKK/YPG terrorist groups returned from Nagorno-Karabakh to Syria and, unable to bear their crushing …

29 years since Mi-8 helicopter shot down in Garakend sky

29 years since Mi-8 helicopter shot down in Garakend sky

Twenty-nine years pass since the Azerbaijani MI-8 military helicopter was shot down by the Armenian security forces near the Garakend village of Azerbaijan’s Khojavand district on November 20, 1991. A total of 22 people in …

Hikmat Hajiyev: Armenian diaspora financing terrorism

Hikmat Hajiyev: Armenian diaspora financing terrorism

Armenian Diaspora is in fact financing terrorism, Assistant to the President of Azerbaijan, Head of the Foreign Policy Affairs Department of the Presidential Administration Hikmat Hajiyev said. According to Hajiyev, in order to …

Armenia carries out second terrorist act against Barda

Armenia carries out second terrorist act against Barda

Armenian armed forces, grossly violating the humanitarian ceasefire regime, have fired at the Barda city from the "Smerch" MLRS, the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry said in a statement posted on its website. According to the …

Aftermath of Armenian terrorist attack in Ganja

Aftermath of Armenian terrorist attack in Ganja

Three of those who died as a result of the missile attack on Ganja by the Armenian armed forces on October 17, 2020 are young children, Trend reports. As reported, 13 people, including three children, four women and six men, …

Four militants eliminated in Chechnya's Grozny

Four militants eliminated in Chechnya's Grozny

 Two police officers were killed on Tuesday in a shootout with militants in the capital of Russia’s southern region of Chechnya, the republic’s leader Ramzan Kadyrov wrote on social media. The National …

ISIS terror plot foiled in Vladikavkaz

ISIS terror plot foiled in Vladikavkaz

Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) has thwarted a planned terrorist attack in Vladikavkaz, the North Caucasus. A follower of the ISIS international terrorist organization (outlawed in Russia) who was plotting to carry out a blast there …

ISIS terrorist Al-bara Shishani extradited to Georgia

ISIS terrorist Al-bara Shishani extradited to Georgia

A Georgian citizen wanted by an Interpol red notice on terrorism charges has been extradited from Ukraine to Georgia. The Georgian State Security Service reported earlier today that the Ukrainian security forces detained Tsezar …

11 terrorist cells eliminated in Dagestan in 2019

11 terrorist cells eliminated in Dagestan in 2019

In Dagestan, in 2019, law enforcement officers prevented activities of the 11 cells of the ISIS terror group banned in Russia, the Deputy Director of the FSB of Russia, the head of the apparatus of the National Anti-Terrorism Committee (NAC) Igor …