President Donald Trump said Thursday he would prefer to address the ongoing crisis with North Korea without military force, saying a confrontation on the peninsula is not 'inevitable', Anadolu Agency reports.

Italy and Azerbaijan have a great potential for development of cooperation, Italian ambassador to Azerbaijan Augusto Massari told reporters in Baku Sept. 7.

A military and diplomatic source has told Sputnik that a US Air Force plane had evacuated Daesh (ISIS, banned in Russia) field commanders from Deir ez-Zor. The US-led coalition has denied the allegations, Sputnik reports.

Since the beginning of its cooperation with Azerbaijan, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has allocated $1.7 billion for implementation of 151 projects in the country, said Azerbaijan’s Minister of Economy Shahin Mustafayev.

The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly President Christine Muttonen has arrived in Azerbaijan, APA reports.

News.Az reprints from APA an article by political analyst Arye Gut.

The Minister of Defense of Azerbaijan, Colonel General Zakir Hasanov, who is on a visit to the Republic of Poland, took part in the opening of the monument erected in Warsaw in memory of military figures of the period of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic Lieutenant-General Suleiman Bey Sulkevich and Colonel Veli Bey Jedigar.

The Azerbaijani entrepreneurs will participate in the 8th Tyumen Oil and Gas Forum.

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has signed an order to confer Friendship Order upon Mammadali Aghayev, APA reports.

Chief of the General Staff of the RF Armed Forces Valery Gerasimov and representative of the NATO Military Committee Petr Pavel discussed in Baku the security situation in Europe and the Middle East and agreed to continue keeping contacts.