ArmInfo. Armenia is concerned about the emergence of a new rise of tension in the region. Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian stated this on January 29, summing up the results of 2017, answering the question about Turkey's actions in Syria.

ArmInfo. The mines dropped on the position of the Defense Army of Artsakh, point to a real customer of strikes against Russian bases in Syria. A similar opinion was expressed by ArmInfo Deputy Director of the Institute of CIS countries, security expert Vladimir Yevseyev. On January 20, the Artsakh Defense Ministry reported on two strikes inflicted on Saturday by two Azeri unmanned aerial vehicles on the positions of the Republic's Defense Army. According to the Artsakh military, mortar mine and artisanal explosives were dropped on Artsakh positions. As a result of both attacks, the Defense Army did not incur losses. "The homemade UAVs used by the Azerbaijani Armed Forces to attack the Artsakh positions are very much like the UAVs used by the militants to attack Russian bases in Syria. It has already become clear that the UAVs used against our military in Syria were designed in accordance with the Turkish order. , it was the Turkish special services that transferred Baku, used before against the Russian military in Syria, the design and technique of strikes, "the expert believes. Evseev believes that, in view of the very low efficiency of using such UAVs in Artsakh, bombing with the help of such handicraft designs is aimed at achieving an exclusively psychological effect. On the night of the sixth of January, the militants launched an attack on the Russian bases of Khmeimim and Tartus in Syria on drone attacks. Seven UAVs were shot down by the Pantsir-S missile systems. Six more were intercepted by electronic warfare units, who managed to land them in a safe place. A detailed analysis of the experts of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation of surviving UAVs showed that the drones contained exceptionally accurate targets data that can not be obtained from open sources. The study of ammunition confirmed the fact of preparing an attack with the participation of outside experts.

ArmInfo.The issue of arms supplies to slamic state militants by IAzerbaijan was raised today by the member of the Armenian delegation Naira Zohrabyan from the  rostrum of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.

ArmInfo. "Aliyev's statement that  the international community should apply sanctions against Armenia is  absurd, it is about the same as if Hitler called on the international  community to impose sanctions against the USSR because of the  liberation of Poland or Czechoslovakia," ArmInfo correspondent  Vice-Speaker of the National Assembly of Armenia Eduard Sharmazanov,  commenting on the call of Azeri President Ilham Aliyev at a meeting  with the delegation of the Committee for Policy and Security of the  Council of the European Union on the need for SIC sanctions against  Armenia because of "occupation" Artsakh.

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ArmInfo. Iran is not the Western Europe to let ISIS off such insults, Member of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation Franz Klintsevich is sure.

ArmInfo.Armenian Prosecutor General office responded extra report of Armenian Ombudsman Arman Tatoyan regarding July events of last year, calling him to express  estimations based only on impartial facts.  

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ArmInfo. The security issues could  not be solved without economic advatntages,. This was stated by Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan on  the margins of his interview to  MIR broadcasting company,   answering the question how does he  estimate the role of EEU from the point of security of its member  countries. 

ArmInfo. The OSCE is exerting efforts towards settlement of conflicts in the region,  particularly, the Transnistrian conflict, as well as the conflicts in  Georgia and Nagorno-Karabakh, Austrian Foreign Minister, OSCE  Chairperson-in-Office Sebastian Kurz said at the meeting of the UN  Security Council.   

ArmInfo.Syria will have the fate of Iraq in the best-case scenario and the fate of Libya in the worst-case one, because unfortunately Syria will not remain a single  country, Alexander Skakov, coordinator of the working group on the Caucasus and Central Asia at the Russian Institute of Oriental Studies, has told ArmInfo.        

ArmInfo.Liberation of Aleepo is the first evidence of  US softenng its Middle East  policy due to Trump's  being elected, Sargis  Hacpanyan, the regional problems expert, expressed his opinion. 

ArmInfo. The charges against 12 members of the Sasna Tsrer (Daredevils of Sassoon) group have been toughened. 

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ArmInfo. Armenian National  Congress did not support Sasna Tsrer movement, as it saw threat of  loss of statehood in that situation, Spokesperson of Armenian  National Congress faction Aram Manukyan stated at today's press  conference. 

The Russian-Turkish confrontation has already made Moscow weigh denunciation of the Moscow Treaty, while Ankara rejects the terms of Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca. What will this “war of treaties” result in, given that President Vladimir Putin refuses from direct talks with his Turkish opposite number Recep Erdogan