I’m afraid that I shall have to tell my great-grandchildren that the Caspian is very little to look at, at least from Baku. It has no color, and it smells outrageously of kerosene, writes H. G. Dwight, in the Century. Baku, however, is something to look at. (Baku is the Russian trans-Caucasian seaport on the […]

Hundreds of children drown while fleeing latest attacks Hugh Pope in Istanbul IF AZERBAIJAN’S new government believed that making up with Moscow would end its nightmarish string of defeats by the Armenians of Nagorny Karabakh, its hopes have been horribly dashed. By the time a one-week Armenian offensive died down over the weekend, diplomats said […]

Civil war: Ethnic battle with Armenians in February was the bloodiest since the Soviet breakup. By Hugh Pope special to the times BAKU, Azerbaijan — More than 600 Azerbaijanis, most of them civilians, were killed by Armenian forces during a bloody February engagement in the Nagorno-Karabakh town of Khojaly, the chief of the official Azerbaijani […]

Continued from page 1 […] But on May 9, the Armenians burst out of the besieged Karabakh capital of Stepanakert and battled their way up a steep hill to capture the nearby town of Shusha, the last significant Azeri stronghold inside the enclave. From their perch in Shusha, Azeri fighters had been raining thousands of […]

Corpses attest to massacre by Armenians report Karl Waldron in Stepanakert and Brian Killen of Reuter in Agdam, Azerbaijan.  The last soldiers of the Commonwealth of Independent States in Nagorno-Karabakh were pulling out of the Caucasian enclave last night as fresh evidence emerged that Armenian militants had carried out a massacre of Azerbaijani civilians.  The […]

By Viktoria Ivleva “I joined the group of doctors who followed the second line of attackers. Several kilometres short of Khodzhaly we saw in the darkness a nebulous mass moving towards us. We could hear moans, shouts and curses in Azerbaijani and Armenian. The stirring mass proved to be a crowd of barely clad people, including […]

Azerbaijan was a charnel house again last week: a place of mourning refugees and dozens of mangled corpses dragged to a makeshift morgue behind a mosque. They were men, women and children of Khojaly, an Azerbaijani village In the war-torn enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh overrun by Armenian forces on Feb. 25-26. Many were killed at close range […]

Special to The New York Times BAKU, Azerbaijan. Aug. 23 — The Azerbaijani Defense Ministry acknowledged today that Azerbaijani forces had been forced to withdraw from the crucial city of Fizuli in the face of continued Armenian pressure from the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh. The loss of Fizuli, which is south of Karabakh and controls […]