Los Angeles City Councilmember Paul Krekorian is spearheading the City of LA’s sponsorship of events commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide.

Members, alumni, and supporters of the Armenian Youth Federation (AYF) braved sub-freezing temperatures today outside the Azerbaijani Embassy in Washington, D.C., to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Baku massacres, condemn Baku’s ongoing anti-Armenian aggression, and call for freedom and security for the independent Republic of Nagorno Karabakh.

On February 27, 1988, Armenians living in the city of Sumgait were subject to a brutal pogrom by rampaging mobs. These massacres spilled into the towns of Baku and Kirovobad, as well.

Armenian officials on Friday expressed their anger and deemed it inappropriate that Israel’s Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman attended an event organized by Azerbaijan regarding what Baku calls the “Khojaly genocide.”

The Armenian authorities on Friday immediately responded to calls by the Assyrian community to host Assyrian refugees who have been displaced from their native lands in Syria at the hands of the Islamic State.

Representative Adam Schiff, a lead sponsor of the Armenian Genocide Truth and Justice Resolution, on Friday submitted a statement to the Congressional Record honoring the lives of those lost in the pogrom twenty-seven years ago.

Offers Powerful Remarks on the House Floor Condemning Baku, Sumgait, Girovabad Massacres, Defending Artsakh’s Right to Freedom
WASHINGTON—Representative Judy Chu (D-Calif.) took to the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives today to commemorate the Sumgait, Baku, and Girovabad massacres, condemn ongoing Azerbaijani aggression, and call for freedom for the people of Nagorno Karabakh, reported the [...]

South Dakota becomes the forty-third United States state to recognize the Armenian Genocide, with the adoption, earlier today, of House Concurrent Resolution 1009 (HCR 1009), reported the Armenian National Committee of America – Western Region.

A hearing for the case of Azerbaijani nationals Dilham Askerov and Shahbaz Guliyev was held at the Artsakh Court of Appeals in Stepanakert on Thursday.

A high-ranking Turkish police chief has been detained in Ankara as part of the investigation into the 2007 murder of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink.

Rep. Cicilline joined by key Committee members in submitting questions on Armenian Genocide, US-Armenia relationship and range of Armenian American Foreign Aid Concerns
WASHINGTON—Representative Brad Sherman (D-Calif.) – speaking Wednesday from the dais of the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee – directly called upon Secretary of State John Kerry, and by extension the entire Obama [...]

At the Innovate Armenia event hosted by the USC Dornsife Institute of Armenian Studies on Feb. 21, a team of software engineers from Armenia, headed by Varham Martirosian, presented a mobile phone application that wowed the audience.

Several Armenian IT companies will showcase their products at CeBIT 2015, the largest technology exhibition in Europe set for March 16 to 20 in Hanover, Germany, the Union of Information Technology Enterprises (UITE) of Armenia reports.

Access to ArmenianGenocide100.org, created ahead of the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, has been blocked by several Internet service providers in Turkey, Armenpress reports.