This is the nineteenth part in a series about riding night trains across Europe and the Near East to Armenia—to spend time in worlds beyond the pathological obsessions of Donald Trump. (This week, the ...

Armenia's once prosperous second city, Gyumri, stands to gain economically when the border with Turkey is opened. Joe Parkinson finds Gyumri residents are ready for a new beginning. Is the Stock ...

Kars, in the far northeastern corner of Turkey, lies a mere 30 miles from Armenia. But border crossings between the two countries have been closed since 1993 because of the first war between Armenia ...

A preliminary reconstruction shows the late antique church of Artaxata. (all images © Armenian-German Artaxata Project) A team of German and Armenian archaeological ...

A century-old Armenian expression says, “Whoever controls the city of Shushi controls the whole of Nagorno-Karabakh.” That proved to be true in May 1992 when ethnic Armenian fighters drove out ...

This is the fifteenth part in a series about riding night trains across Europe and the Near East to Armenia—to spend time in worlds beyond the pathological obsessions of Donald Trump. (This week, ...

Police arrested the mayor of Armenia’s second-largest city on bribery charges on Monday, hauling him out of his office while crowds protested outside, as authorities crack down on government critics ...

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has announced he had signed an “unspeakably painful agreement” with Russia and Azerbaijan to end the war over the disputed area of Nagorno-Karabakh, just hours ...

An imbroglio has emerged in Jerusalem over a nondescript 2.8-acre parcel of prime real estate known in Armenian as Goveroun Bardez (the Cows’ Garden). The Armenian patriarch, Archbishop Nourhan ...

Gyumri, ARMENIA -- When Russian President Vladimir Putin visited his country’s military base here in 2013, he struck a confident tone. “Russia is never going to leave here,” he said. “On the contrary, ...