Azerbaijan
nation statenation state
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| Location | Asia |
| Type | nation state |
| A former part of the USSR. | |
Azerbaijan is a central Asian nation state which incorporates Nagorno-Karabakh.
1990s
[A] host of players with long histories in criminal government were active in Azerbaijan. Richard Secord, who had a criminal history stretching back to heroin trafficking in Vietnam and who was a senior officer in the Enterprise, ran a mercenary army in Azerbaijan made up of Al Qaeda mercenaries.[1]
Operation Gladio B
- Full article: Operation Gladio/B
- Full article: Operation Gladio/B
Sibel Edmonds has stated that when she was working for the FBI, Azerbaijan was one of 4 countries which they were not permitted to monitor under FISA (the others being Belgium, UK and Turkey). She suggests that this was due to concerns about protecting deep state drug trafficking.[2]
Nagorno-Karabakh
Azerbaijan attacked the Armenia-backed Republic of Artsakh in 2023. Protests erupt in Armenia, Artsakh announces the dissolution of government institutions, and over 100,000 ethnic Armenians flee Nagorno-Karabakh after Azerbaijan wins as Russia is too busy fighting Ukraine and many PMCs have been submerged by Russian military control.[3][4][5]