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Five years after that rejection he was flying a Spitfire over the Channel in defense of the country whose oldest university had turned him away for his ancestry. Through the Battle of Britain he shot down German aircraft over Portland and Portsmouth; one of his Spitfires, R6915, survives in the Imperial War Museum today. In 1941 he was posted to North Africa. On May 16, over Libya, he was shot down and killed at twenty-four.

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The strategic calculus behind Israel’s hesitation is well understood in foreign policy circles. Azerbaijan supplies a significant portion of Israel’s oil imports and serves as a vital strategic partner on Iran’s northern border. Turkey remains a formidable regional power whose airspace, trade routes, and diplomatic channels cannot be easily written off permanently. However, subjecting historical truth to realpolitik creates a profound moral hazard.

An Azerbaijani appeals court on August 6 upheld lengthy prison sentences against seven former leaders of Nagorno-Karabakh captured by Baku in 2023. Five of them were sentenced to life imprisonment and the two others received 20-year jail terms in February at the end of what Armenian lawyers and human rights activists see as a sham trial. A military court in Baku also handed slightly shorter prison sentences to eight other Karabakh Armenians tried together with them.

WASHINGTON — The Armenian Assembly of America welcomes the recent advancement by the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of legislation introduced by Senator Adam Schiff (D-CA) to designate the United States Postal Service facility in Glendale, Calif., as the “Paul Ignatius Post Office.” The bipartisan measure S.

Adding to the concerns, Israel’s current political climate, characterized by the strong influence of nationalist and right-wing parties, has led many observers to worry that extremist settlers and ultra-nationalist groups feel increasingly emboldened.

The organization’s work now spans preservation, education, language, cultural heritage, and justice. Rerooted’s oral history interviews are used in classrooms from middle school to graduate school and address themes including human rights, diaspora, identity, refugee experiences, language preservation, minorities in the Middle East, and displacement.

“As you know, Armenia adopted in 2025 the Law on the Commencement of the Accession Process of the Republic of Armenia to the European Union,” he said in a speech. “The strategic goal of adopting this law is to create an alternative for our country. “We understand that simultaneous membership in the Eurasian Economic Union and the European Union is impossible.

YEREVAN (Pan.am) — The Foreign Ministry has verbally conveyed a meeting proposal to Veronika Zonabend, wife of Ruben Vardanyan, who is being held in an Azerbaijani prison. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Ani Badalyan confirmed the information, RFE/RL reported on August 11.

NEW YORK — In May, Nauset Press released the debut novel First Rule of Fire by author Rebecca Gopoian. The book is an intergenerational story told in three narratives, spanning from the Ottoman Empire 1914 at the start of the Armenian Genocide to suburban New Jersey 1982. Based in part on real diaries, the book explores how one family builds hope and resilience from the roots of trauma. “This book has been a very long time coming.