Henrikh Mkhitaryan set to miss Borussia Dortmund trip to Azerbaijan

Henrikh Mkhitaryan is set to miss Borussia Dortmund's Europa League trip to Azerbaijan because of security concerns, the club have said.

Dortmund face Azerbaijani club Gabala in the Europa League on Thursday, but are likely to leave the Armenian midfielder in Germany because of an ongoing conflict over the Nagorno-Karabakh region between Armenia and Azerbaijan.

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