Nagorno-Karabakh Republic President Bako Sahakian on Friday said the war with Azerbaijan is unlikely to resume soon and again ruled out any peaceful settlement that would place Karabakh back under Azerbaijani control.

Armenian-American lawyers filed a federal lawsuit Thursday against the Turkish government and two banks seeking compensation for the heirs of Armenians whose property was allegedly seized as they were driven from during the Armenian Genocide.

Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced the appointment of 15 teachers as Teaching Ambassador Fellows for the 2010-11 school year on Monday, July 26. Glendale Unified School District’s Edit Khachatryan will serve as one of the five selected teachers to work full-time at the headquarters

For many Armenians who have immigrated to Los Angeles, driving a taxi has become one of the few ways of squeezing out a living. But for Armenian companies and drivers in Santa Monica, this source of employment may soon be cut off.

Moscow and Yerevan are planning to sign a new military agreement that would assign Russia and its troops a greater role in ensuring Armenia’s security, official sources in both countries said on Friday

Unfortunately, the President’s choice wasn’t worth the wait. He nominated Matthew Bryza, a controversial diplomat, widely viewed as pro-Azerbaijani and carrying heavy conflict of interest baggage tied to his wife’s professional advocacy at a Washington, DC think-tank in support of Azerbaijani interests. This think tank, the Hudson Institute, significantly, has refused to reveal its foreign sources of funding, but public records show that its programs have been funded by interests from Azerbaijan, Turkey, and the Caspian energy industry

Western Prelate Archbishop Moushegh Mardirossian presided over the wake service which was held on the evening of Sunday, July 25, at Holy Cross Cathedral in Montebello. Participating in the service were Prelate of the Eastern Prelacy Archbishop Oshagan Choloyan, Archbishop Yeprem Tabakian, Very Rev. Father Muron Aznikian, Primate of the Western Diocese Archbishop Hovnan Derderian, Archbishop Vatche Hovsepian, Archbishop Mikayel Achabahian, Very Rev. Father Baret Yeretsian, Very Rev. Father Kegham Zakarian, and clergy members.

One of the key elements in opposing President Barack Obama’s ambassadorial nominee to Azerbaijan, Matthew Bryza, is the glaring conflict of interest his wife’s position at the Hudson institute poses to the highest US post in Baku.

Republican and Democratic members of Congress called into question Turkey’s reliability as a U.S. ally, highlighted its deteriorating relationship with Israel, and addressed a range of issues from Armenian Genocide denial to its repression of Christian minorities and the occupation of Cyprus, during a three-hour House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing held Wednesday, reported the Armenian National Committee of America.

In an article published on Wired.com, reporter Spencer Ackerman probes recent information published by WikiLeaks, as part of last Sunday’s leak of 92,000 classified Pentagon documents, and finds that Turkish militants were attacking US troops in Afghanistan near the Pakistani border.

The Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group, Ambassador Igor Popov of Russia, Bernard Fassier of France, and Robert Bradtke of the United States, released the following statement Thursday, expressing their concern and urging compromises from both sides. Below is the statement:

Russian state arms exporter Rosoboronexport on Thursday denied reports that Moscow has agreed to deliver S-300 air defense systems to Azerbaijan, reported the Itar-Tass news agency.

Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has denied the existence of any long-lasting diplomatic crisis with the United States, either currently or in the past, saying the two countries’ strategic priorities and approaches actually overlap.

Ogun Samast, the primary suspect in the assassination of journalist Hrant Dink, has become a suspect in another case after allegedly intimidating Dink’s brother, Hosrof Dink.