Henrikh Mkhitaryan misses Borussia Dortmund trip to Azerbaijan

Henrikh Mkhitaryan has not travelled on Borussia Dortmund's Europa League trip to Azerbaijan because of security concerns, the club have confirmed.

Dortmund face Azerbaijani club Gabala on Thursday, but have left the Armenian midfielder in Germany because of an ongoing conflict betweenArmenia and Azerbaijan over the Nagorno-Karabakh region.

The region, along with some adjacent territory, has been under the control of Armenian soldiers and local ethnic Armenian forces since a 1994 ceasefire ended...