Current chief advisor to the Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, Vagharshak Harutyunyan, who has also served as Minister of Defense in 1999-2000, has been appointed new Minster of Defense.

During the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war, which began on 27 September 2020, Azerbaijani forces seized control of many settlements, including the strategically important city of Shusha after a three-day-long battle.

The war ended in an Azerbaijani victory on 9 November, and a ceasefire was signed between both parties and Russia.

After Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan announced on Facebook that he signed an agreement to cede Armenian held territories in Azerbaijan and put an end to six weeks of hostilities over the Nagorno-Karabakh region, thousands of people took to the streets, and hundreds stormed the Parliament building in the capital Yerevan.

An attempted assassination of Nikol Pashinyan led to the growing minister of Armenia to resign. The foreign minister was under fire after leading a protest on 14 November. (ILKHA)