Armenia & Azerbaijan hold peace talks in UAE, no breakthrough
Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev and Armenia PM Nikol Pashinyan held peace talks in UAE on Thursday to end their almost four-decade-long conflict even as no breakthrough was announced. This was their first formal meeting since they finalised draft peace deal in March. Armenia-Azerbaijan tensions had worsened over battles for Nagorno-Karabakh, a disputed region reclaimed by Azerbaijan in 2023.