Today, on April 18, Azerbaijan commemorates the 33rd anniversary of the Bashlibel massacre committed by Armenian militants.

Today marks the 34th anniversary of the Aghdaban massacre, carried out by Armenian armed groups in the village of Aghdaban in Azerbaijan’s Kalbajar district on the night of April 7–8, 1992.

President of Türkiye, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has shared a post on social media in commemoration of the 34th anniversary of the Khojaly genocide.

Editor's note: Faig Mahmudov is a journalist based in Azerbaijan. The views expressed in this article are his own and do not necessarily reflect those of News.Az.

Nigeria’s President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has ordered the deployment of an army battalion to a troubled state after gunmen killed as many as 162 people in one of the country’s deadliest attacks in recent months.

China held a low-key memorial ceremony on Saturday to mark the 88th anniversary of the 1937 Nanjing Massacre, even as diplomatic tensions with Japan remain high over Taiwan. President Xi Jinping did not attend the event, which took place at the Nanjing Massacre Memorial Museum.

Viola Ford Fletcher, one of the last surviving witnesses of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died at the age of 111. Fletcher spent much of her life advocating for justice and recognition for victims of one of the deadliest episodes of racial violence in U.S. history.

Today, Azerbaijan commemorates 32 years since the Bashlibel massacre committed by Armenian armed forces.