An assassination attempt on a presidential candidate in Armenia has thrown this month’s election into doubt and could threaten stability in the volatile Caucasus region that carries oil and natural gas to Europe. Paruyr Hayrikyan, an outsider in the February 18 presidential vote, was shot in the...

A candidate in Armenia’s presidential elections has been shot and wounded in the capital Yerevan, in what officials believe was an assassination attempt. The officials say Paruyr Hayrikyan, aged 63, was taken to hospital with a gunshot injury to his shoulder. He is reportedly in a stable condition. Police...

BUDAPEST — Long-standing tensions between Azerbaijan and Armenia have escalated after an Azeri army officer who murdered an Armenian officer was given a hero’s welcome on returning home after eight years in prison in Hungary last month. “There is already a war of words, and I am very much concerned...