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Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev casts his ballot during presidential election at a polling station in Khankendi, Karabakh region, Azerbaijan, Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2024. Azerbaijanis are voting Wednesday in an election almost certain to see incumbent President Ilham Aliyev chosen to serve another seven-year term. (Vugar Amrullaev/Azerbaijan State News Agency AZERTAC via AP)

Azerbaijan’s president set to win reelection in a snap vote, riding on a victory in Karabakh

By AIda Sultanova - Associated Press

Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev attends the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) meeting in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, on Friday, Oct. 13, 2023. (Pavel Bednyakov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Azerbaijan: An ally of the free world in the broader Middle East

By S. Rob Sobhani

In this photo taken from video released by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on Thursday, Sept. 21, 2023, Russian peacekeepers guard a gate into a camp near Stepanakert in Nagorno-Karabakh. Thousands of Nagorno-Karabakh residents flocked to a camp operated by Russian peacekeepers to avoid the fighting, while many others gathered at the airport of the regional capital, Stepanakert, hoping to flee the region. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP)

Talks have opened on the future of Nagorno-Karabakh as Azerbaijan claims full control of the region

Associated Press

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, left, speaks during a joint news conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin following their talks in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2022. (Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Time for a U.S.-Azerbaijan Summit

By S. Rob Sobhani

Azerbaijani soldiers wave national flags as they celebrate the transfer of the Lachin region to Azerbaijan's control, as part of a peace deal that required Armenian forces to cede the Azerbaijani territories they held outside Nagorno-Karabakh, in Aghjabadi, Azerbaijan, Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2020. Azerbaijan has completed the return of territory ceded by Armenia under a Russia-brokered peace deal that ended six weeks of fierce fighting over Nagorno-Karabakh. Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev hailed the restoration of control over the Lachin region and other territories as a historic achievement. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel

Azerbaijan fully reclaims lands around Nagorno-Karabakh

Associated Press

FILE - This March 3, 2006 file photo, shows oil derricks in the background beyond the Bibi Heybat Mosque in Baku, Azerbaijan. A group of evangelical pastors from the U.S. is visiting the predominantly Muslim Shiite nation of Azerbaijan to promote interfaith dialogue and highlight cooperation with Israel. New York-based Rabbi Marc Schneier, who led the delegation, told The Associated Press from the capital of Baku on Thursday, March 7, 2019, that this was the first ever Christian evangelical delegation to visit Azerbaijan. (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel, File)

Rabbi leads US evangelicals in visit to Muslim Azerbaijan

By AYA BATRAWY - Associated Press

Illustration of John Bolton by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

John Bolton goes to Azerbaijan

By S. Rob Sobhani

Illustration on the relative stability of Azerbaijan by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev delivers on good governance

By S. Rob Sobhani

Azerbaijan Secure Energy Source Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Azerbaijan is America’s reliable partner

By S. Rob Sobhani

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ALEXANDER MURINSON: Azerbaijan awaits a tailwind from Washington

By Alexander Murinson

Azerbaijan: America’s reliable partner

By S. Rob Sobhani

Atletico's Koke, left and teammate Atletico's Diego Godin celebrate in front of their fans after defeating Chelsea in the Champions League semifinal second leg soccer match between Chelsea and Atletico Madrid at Stamford Bridge stadium in London, Wednesday, April 30, 2014. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

Atletico’s rise helps Azerbaijan’s soccer image

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev seen during the voting at a polling station in Baku, Azerbaijan, Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2013. Oil-rich Azerbaijan is booming and the wealth is trickling down to its poorest people. It all means that its president doesn't even need to clamp down too hard to ensure he extends a decades-long dynastic rule in elections on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

Amb. Suleymanov: Azerbaijan piles up the building blocks of democracy

By Amb. Elin Suleymanov

Tony Teano (left) of the Anne Arundel Community College internship office talks with independent U.S. Senate candidate Rob Sobhani at a jobs fair at the college, in Arnold, Md., on Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2012. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

SOBHANI: Azerbaijan’s example of how to breed success

By S. Rob Sobhani

Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev seen during the voting at a polling station in Baku, Azerbaijan, Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2013. Oil-rich Azerbaijan is booming and the wealth is trickling down to its poorest people. It all means that its president doesn't even need to clamp down too hard to ensure he extends a decades-long dynastic rule in elections on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

Embassy Row: A work in progress in Azerbaijan

By James Morrison - The Washington Times

Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev seen during the voting at a polling station in Baku, Azerbaijan, Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2013. Oil-rich Azerbaijan is booming and the wealth is trickling down to its poorest people. It all means that its president doesn't even need to clamp down too hard to ensure he extends a decades-long dynastic rule in elections on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

SULEYMANOV: Azerbaijan piles up the building blocks of democracy

By Elin Suleymanov

Electoral commission staff count ballot papers after voting closed at a polling station in Baku, Azerbaijan, Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2013. Azerbaijan&#8217;s president won a third five-year term by a landslide in Wednesday&#8217;s vote, according to an exit poll, extending decades of dynastic rule in the oil-rich Caspian Sea nation allied with the West. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

State Dept. knocks election in Azerbaijan

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

Azerbaijan's Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov (left) visits the Hall of Names at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem in April. Israel's president praised Azerbaijan earlier this year for playing a key role in countering Iran's influence in the Middle East as the Muslim country's foreign minister visited the Jewish state for the first time. (Associated Press)

Azerbaijan: An American ally in a sea of threats

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

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