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Armenian police have detained a suspect after gunshots were fired inside a business center in the capital, Yerevan.
Armenia's parliament has approved the final reading of a law aimed at tackling the organized crime bosses known as "thieves-by-law" and other organized crime-related activities such as racketeering.
A former chief of Armenia's National Security Service (HAAT) who was found dead with a gunshot wound to his temple last week has been buried in Yerevan.
Georgi Kutoyan, the former head of Armenia’s National Security Service (NSS), has been found dead in a Yerevan apartment, officials say.
Armenian authorities have placed under custody a man over a Facebook post that claimed Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian congratulated U.S. President Donald Trump for assassinating Iran's top military commander.
The Armenian government has launched a major investigation into numerous adoptions that may have been the result of babies illegally taken from hospitals and orphanages.
Armenian authorities have brought corruption charges against Serzh Sarkisian, the former president who was toppled during last year's "Velvet Revolution."
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has thrown his support behind one of his ministers in an ongoing debate about government funding for a documentary telling the story of an Armenian athlete who changed her gender to become a man.
Unknown gunmen have shot dead an Armenian Catholic priest and his father as they were traveling in a car in northeastern Syria.
А court in Yerevan has denied bail to former President Robert Kocharian, who faces charges of overthrowing the constitutional order.
The U.S. Embassy in Yerevan says President Donald Trump’s administration has increased assistance funding to Armenia to more than $60 million in 2019, adding that the amount represents a 40-percent increase over last year’s amount.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has called on fellow member states of the Russia-led Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) to “consider the interests of all participating nations” when it comes to issues such as foreign policy and military-technical cooperation.
Armenian politicians and the public have reacted to a resolution by the U.S. House of Representatives that describes the killings of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire at the beginning of the 20th century as genocide. The resolution, which passed overwhelmingly, comes amid tense relations between Washington and Turkey, the successor of the Ottoman Empire, over its recent military incursion against U.S.-backed Syrian Kurdish militia forces in northeastern Syria.
Armenian-American media star Kim Kardashian and her sister Kourtney were chased by crowds of fans and journalists during a visit to the ancestral homeland. The Kardashians were seen outside a hotel and a restaurant in Armenia's capital, Yerevan, on October 7.
American reality television stars Kim Kardashian West and her sister Kourtney Kardashian have baptized their children during a visit to the family’s ancestral homeland of Armenia.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has arrived in Yerevan to take part in a summit of leaders of the Eurasian Economic Union (EES) amid protests against political suppression in Russia.
The foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan have held talks on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York.
Former Armenian police chief Hayk Harutiunian has been found dead in his house in Yerevan with a gunshot wound to his head.
Armenian police chief Valeri Osipian has been fired, two days after the resignation of the National Security Service (NSS) head.
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