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Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar faced intense blowback Tuesday over the vote on a resolution to recognize the Ottoman empires genocide against Armenians more than a century ago. Omar, a progressive Democrat, was one of three lawmakers to vote present on the resolu…

Tuesdays vote by the House of Representatives to recognize the Armenian Genocide may have no immediate practical effect. But by defying pressure from Turkey and finally calling a historical crime by the appropriate name, Congress ended a dishonorable traditio…

The House resolution to recognize the Armenian genocide passed overwhelmingly on Tuesday despite opposition from eleven Republican members, two of whom cited geo-strategic concerns while the rest remained silent on their justification for opposing the legisla…

FOR ARMENIAN-AMERICANS, it was a moment of vindication. After decades of campaigning for their country to acknowledge their forebears agonies, news came that the House of Representatives had voted by 405 to 11 to recognise as genocide the persecution of the A…

According to several sources, including the BBC and the New York Times, the U.S. House of Representatives passed, by a 405-11 vote (with three people, two of them Democrats, just voting “present”), a resolution recognizing as a “genocide” the mass killing of …

ANKARA-Anadolu Agency The Turkish parliament on Oct. 31 condemned the U.S. House of Representatives' passing a resolution recognizing the so-called "Armenian genocide" as well as a bill backing sanctions on Turkey. "The Turkish Grand National Assembly regre…

Iran Press TV Wed Oct 30, 2019 10:14AM Ankara has summoned Washington's ambassador to protest two resolutions passed by the US House of Representatives, which impose sanctions on Turkey over its Syria incursion and recognize the killings of Armenians by the…

This was a cowardly move by Ilhan Omar. Her statement about it was bad too.Is the House finally passing this political? No shit. Recognizing Armenian genocide (or rather, NOT recognizing it) has always been political. We've held off on recognizing it for so l…

The US House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to recognize the mass killings of Armenians a century ago as a genocide, a symbolic but historic vote instantly denounced by Turkey. The Democratic-controlled House voted 405-11 in favor of a re…

YEREVAN (Reuters) - Armenia on Tuesday praised the U.S. House of Representatives’ passage of a resolution recognizing the mass killings of Armenians a century ago as “genocide”, a move denounced by Turkey as “null and void”. “I salute the historic U.S. Cong…