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Armenia's National Security Service says that two out of four police officers held by gunmen in a police station in Armenia’s capital Yerevan were released on July 23.
Hundreds of Armenian protesters sympathetic to an armed opposition group holding hostages at a district police headquarters in Yerevan clashed with police on July 20 after their demand to provide food to the gunmen went unheeded by authorities.
Armenian police have deployed more personnel in front of a district police headquarters in the capital, Yerevan, where armed supporters of a jailed opposition leader have been holding several people hostage since July 17.
Gunmen affiliated with an Armenian opposition group have freed three of seven hostages at an occupied Yerevan police station as a standoff with security forces enters a second day.
Armenian lawmakers have approved the cabinet's decision to join Russia's air-defense system amid protests by the opposition.
Pope Francis has arrived in Armenia for a three-day visit meant to further strengthen the Vatican’s relations with the country and the state-backed Armenian Apostolic Church.
Uzbek authorities have released from prison the lawyer of an ethnic Armenian man convicted of Islamic extremism.
Armenia's Special Investigative Service has launched a probe into the activities of the former chief of the State Bailiffs Service in connection with alleged links to offshore companies.
The head of Armenia's State Bailiffs Service has resigned after local news reports documented his alleged links to offshore companies.
Hundreds of Armenians have demonstrated in Yerevan against Russian weapon sales to Azerbaijan, claiming the sales led to the outbreak of fighting on April 2 in and around Azerbaijan's breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Separatist forces in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh launched a counteroffensive and said they regained strategic high ground, as heavy fighting continued to rage between Azerbaijani and ethnic Armenian forces.
Intense fighting has been reported in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh inside Azerbaijan, with both sides reporting heavy casualties. The co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group, which has been mediating the conflict, expressed "grave concern" about developments.
An Armenian soccer player who signed on with a leading Turkish team boasts of a "warm welcome" in Istanbul, allaying fears that ethnic tensions might spoil the fun.
Former Armenian President Levon Ter-Petrossian has undergone surgery for intestinal cancer in the United States.
Armenian officials say an outbreak of the H1N1 swine flu virus has killed 11 people in the country in the last two months.
Commemorations have been held in Armenia for the family allegedly killed by a Russian soldier exactly one year ago.
An opposition activist in Armenia has been arrested and remanded in pretrial custody after he and other members of a radical group seeking to topple the government clashed with riot police on New Year’s Eve.
Inmates serving life terms in Armenia’s largest prison have launched a hunger strike to demand that their cases be reviewed.
The opposition Armenian National Congress (HAK) says it plans to challenge the results of a December 6 national referendum that transformed the country from a presidential to a parliamentary system of government.
Armenia’s Central Election Commission on December 13 said amendments to the country’s constitution have been adopted, a week after a national referendum, transforming the country from a presidential to a parliamentary system of government.
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