38 Azerbaijani families have returned to the village of Khanabad in the Khojaly region.

The first group of 154 Azerbaijani displaced persons (IDPs) from the village of Khanabad in the Khojaly region, who fled during the Karabakh conflict, has returned to the village.

As reported by the "Caucasian Knot," by December 24, 2025, 6,206 families (24,729 people) had returned to 31 settlements in the former Karabakh conflict zone.

On February 19, the first group of former internally displaced persons (IDPs) who had left for the village of Khanabad in the Khojaly region arrived in the city of Khojaly. At the initial stage, 38 families – 154 people – are being resettled in the village, Report reports.

These families were temporarily resettled in various regions of Azerbaijan, primarily in dormitories, sanatoriums, and administrative buildings, the publication states.

Families who returned to the village of Khanabad in the Khojaly district were given keys to their homes, APA reports.

As a reminder, on September 19-20, 2023, Azerbaijan conducted large-scale military operations and took control of the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, which began a mass exodus of the Armenian population. By October 7, 2023, 100,632 internally displaced persons from Nagorno-Karabakh had arrived in Armenia, and by September 2024, only 14 Armenians remained in the region. The "Caucasian Knot" has prepared a report "The Beginning and End of the Unrecognized Republic of Artsakh".

By August 2024, 2,036 families (7,901 people) of internally displaced persons (IDPs) had returned to the territories of Karabakh that had come under the control of Baku.

Azerbaijani IDPs complained about the difficulties of returning to Karabakh. In particular, they noted a shortage of jobs in Fizuli. People are seeking opportunities to return to their homelands, but in the territories under Azerbaijani control, property issues have not yet been resolved, IDPs noted.

Azerbaijani analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" pointed out that simply providing housing for IDPs returning to their cities is not enough. The authorities must create jobs and build infrastructure, they emphasized.