SEPT. 2 2015 (The Conway Bulletin) – The security forces in Azerbaijan said they had detained five men for bring- ing arms into the country, planning various attacks and having links to the Islamic extremist group IS. Media reported that the five men had had links to IS in Syria and Iraq between 2013 and 2015.
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SEPT. 3/4 2015 (The Conway Bulletin) – Unidentified men launched a series of attacks on government buildings in Dushanbe, killing at least nine policemen, media reported. Media said the men were linked to Islamic extremism, although this has not been confirmed.
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SEPT. 3 2015 (The Conway Bulletin) – Shelling along the de facto border around the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh killed at least one Armenian solider, media reported quoting Armenian sources. Sporadic fighting around Nagorno- Karabakh, which is controlled by Armenian-backed separatists, is fairly commonplace.
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AUG. 30 2015 (The Conway Bulletin) – Speaking at a ceremony to mark 24 years of independence from the Soviet Union, Uzbek president Islam Karimov said that he wouldn’t allow a foreign military base to be established in Uzbekistan and that the country would always maintain its neutrality. Germany has a military base in southern Uzbekistan
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AUG. 19 2015 (The Conway Bulletin) – Georgia’s government accused Russia of flying a military helicopter into its air space around the border of the breakaway region of South Ossetia. Earlier this year South Ossetian forces apparently grabbed a slither of Georgian territory. Russia is also staging large scale military exercises in South Ossetia.
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AUG. 17 2015 (The Conway Bulletin) – Russia will build a new radar system in Azerbaijan, its ministry of defence said in a TV broadcast, underlining just how links between the two countries have developed. It will replace a radar station at Qabala that Russia had leased from Azerbaijan. In 2012 Azerbaijan declined to sign a lease extension on the radar at Qabala to Russia.
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AUG. 13 2015 (The Conway Bulletin) – Russia will host two naval exercises this year with the Azerbaijani and Kazakh navies, media reported quoting senior Russian officials. The drills will take place in the Caspian Sea. The first will be a bilateral exercise involving Azerbaijan and Russia. The second will be trilateral and also include Kazakhstan.
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AUG. 12 2015 (The Conway Bulletin) – A Russian military court sentenced soldier Valery Permyakov to 10 years in jail for desertion and then handed him over to Armenian officials who are building a case to try him for the stabbing to death of an entire family earlier this year. Permyakov had been serving at the Gyumri military base in Armenia, one of Russia’s largest overseas bases.
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AUG. 4 2015 (The Conway Bulletin) – An explosion in Turkey on the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars-Ezurum gas pipeline has raised worries that Kurdish fighters and other factions may target energy transport infrastructure carrying oil and gas from the Azerbaijan’s Caspian Sea to Europe. Media reported an explosion on a remote section of the pipeline in east Turkey.
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AUG. 3 2015 (The Conway Bulletin) – A court in Aktobe, west Kazakhstan, jailed eight men for 3-6 years for spreading Islamic extremist propaganda, media reported. Kazakhstan is becoming increasingly sensitive to the spread of Islamic propaganda. It worries that the radical IS group in Syria and Iraq is actively recruiting from Central Asia.
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(News report from Issue No. 242, published on Aug. 7 2015)