YEGHEGIS, Armenia, July 17 (UNHCR) - Nestled in a valley surrounded by towering mountains, this village in southern Armenia's Vayots Dzor province is an oasis of artistic appreciation and tolerance in ...

Several families displaced by ethnic cleansing in their ancient Christian homeland more than two years ago were given new ...

In 2016, during what became known as the “four-day war” between Armenia and Azerbaijan, Sonia Matinyan’s pregnant daughter-in-law fell ill. Her son bundled his wife into their car and started driving ...

It was a windy evening, atypical of Yerevan’s warm autumn. I arrived at Viktoriia Haryacha’s house, a Ukrainian woman who works as a tour guide in Armenia, and was immediately offered her delicious ...

Global Voices stands out as one of the earliest and strongest examples of how media committed to building community and defending human rights can positively influence how people experience events ...

With a GDP per capita estimated at just $5,400 in 2011, Armenia is one of the poorest countries in the former Soviet Union. But although development in the center of the country's capital, Yerevan, ...

A gray wall has divided the Armenian village of Kirants, with some 70 houses and 350 inhabitants, for a year now. It is around 100 meters (ca. 330 feet) long and made of three-meter-tall concrete ...

Nagorno-Karabakh pensioner Svetlana Isakhanyan walked into her new life in Armenia wearing green slippers and carrying only a handbag with a passport. The stooping 78-year-old had lived in the ...

Fresno The Armenian Hope Organization is gathering donations this week to send to a village in Armenia. They call it the Village of Hope. Everything from bookcases and cement mixers to school books ...

BAKU, Azerbaijan -- Armenia and Azerbaijan said heavy fighting is continuing in their conflict over the separatist territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, and Azerbaijan's president said late Saturday that his ...