U.S. brokers Armenia-Azerbaijan peace 
In a deal to secure peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan – ending almost four decades of conflict – the U.S. will be awarded development rights to a strategic transit route in the oil- and gas-rich region
1915-16 Armenian genocide: Amid collapse of Ottoman Empire, hundreds of thousands of Christian Armenians murdered or expelled from Türkiye, many to Muslim-majority Azerbaijan
1988-94: First Nagorno-Karabakh war: Armenian forces drive 725,000 Azeris from homes. Land swap proposal fails. War ends with Russian-brokered ceasefire. 25,000 dead
2020: Second Nagorno-Karabakh war: Azerbaijan, backed by Türkiye, recaptures surrounding territory. Russian peacekeepers deployed in Artsakh and Lachin Corridor
GEORGIA
RUSSIA
TÜRKIYE
ARMENIA
AZERBAIJAN
Baku
IRAN
100km
60 miles
Nagorno-Karabakh region (Soviet borders)
Armenian-occupied territory ceded back to Azerbaijan in 2020 ceasefire
Former breakaway Republic of Artsakh – 120,000 ethnic Armenians fled after laying down arms in 2023
AZERBAIJAN
U.S. to lift restrictions on defence cooperation
Khankendi (Stepankert)
ARMENIA
Yerevan
Lake Sevan
Lachin Corridor
Nakhchivan (Azer.)
TÜRKIYE
IRAN
50km
30 miles
Zanzegur Corridor (or Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity TRIPP): Linking Azerbaijan to its Nakhchivan province
Armenia gives U.S. rights, subleased to infrastructure consortium, for 99 years
Sources: Politico, Reuters
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