Turkey on Saturday welcomed a peace accord between Azerbaijan and Armenia and said it hoped a planned strategic transit corridor, which could boost exports of energy and other resources through the South Caucasus,

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP HOSTED Armenian President Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev at the White House on Friday to sign a peace agreement that could be a major step toward normalizing relations between the hostile neighbors.

Armenia and Azerbaijan signed a peace framework in Washington on August 8 after nearly four decades of conflict. The two nations, long divided over territorial disputes, committed to end hostilities,