The president appointed Pashinyan for a second spell as prime minister following a June parliamentary election that was won by Pashinyan’s party.

Three Armenian soldiers are killed in a cross-border exchange of fire with Azeri forces in Nagorno-Karabakh, where a truce had been in place between Armenia and Azerbaijan since November last year.

Iran has urged Azerbaijan and Armenia to exercise restraint as tensions flared up at the two countries’ border.

The Armenian military says one of its soldiers has been injured during a shootout with Azerbaijani troops in an eastern border area.

Azerbaijan has released more than a dozen Armenian prisoners in exchange for maps of tens of thousands of mines in conflict zones.

Armenia's opposition says it will mobilize massive protest rallies and challenge the June 20 snap election results in the country's constitutional court, citing "mass violations."

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan's party wins landslide victory in snap parliamentary polls.