An on-duty serviceman of the Armenian Armed Forces was found dead on January 6 from a self-inflicted gunshot wound from his service machine gun, authorities said.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has offered condolences to the families of the victims of flight PS752, the Ukrainian International Airlines flight en route from Iran to Ukraine that crashed after takeoff from Tehran’s Imam Khomeini airport on January 8.
Ukraine International Airlines is suspending its flights to Iran for an unspecified period after its flight PS752 en route from Tehran to Kiev crashed after takeoff, killing all 176 people on board.
The US Embassy in Armenia has announced it is temporarily suspending some visa services due to the latest developments in the Middle East.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has chaired a consultation on January 8 to discuss “the ongoing developments in the region” and the implementation process of the instructions he had issued to governmental authorities on this occasion back on Friday.
There were no Armenians aboard the Ukrainian International Airlines Boeing-737 that crashed in Iran shortly after taking off from the Tehran airport en route to Kiev, according to information provided by the Armenian foreign ministry.
Catholicos Garegin II of the Armenian Apostolich Church has offered condolences to the families and friends of the Ukrainian International Airlines Tehran-Kiev flight crash which killed all 176 people on board on January 8.
Armenian Minister of Foreign Affairs has offered condolences to the families and friends of the 176 victims of the Ukraine International Airlines Tehran-Kiev flight that crashed after takeoff today in the Iranian capital.
80 people were killed in Iran’s missile attack on US bases in Iraq, Reuters reported citing Iranian state TV.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif described Iran’s missile attack to the US base in Iraq as a “proportionate measure” which came “in self-defense”, IRNA reports.