Nagorno-Karabakh: Rocket “Rain” in Stepanakert



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About thirty rocket explosions were heard in various neighborhoods Stepanakert Wednesday night through Thursday like the bombing of your capital Nagorno-Karabakh It continues with brief pauses, reports a correspondent for the Russian news agency TASS in the city.

The sirens warning citizens to hurry to the shelters are constantly sounding in the city.

The authorities have not yet provided information on casualties or material damage from the ongoing bombing.

Clashes between Azerbaijani forces and Armenian separatists in the enclave have raged since September 27.

This is the more serious than the resurgence of violencein Nagorno-Karabakh in recent years, for much tougher clashes than in the summer of 2014, April 2016 or July this year.

the Yerevan and Baku imposed martial law and declared mobilization. Both parties report numerous victims, including civilians.

The dispute over Nagorno-Karabakh, a disputed region of Azerbaijan before the dissolution of the Soviet Union but with a predominantly Armenian population, intensified in February 1988, when the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Region of Nagorno-Karabakh declared Azerbaijani .

From 1992 to 1994 large-scale military operations were carried out to control the enclave.

Talks to resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict have been under way since 1992 under the auspices of the so-called Minsk Group of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). The three countries that co-chair the Minsk Group, Russia, France and the United States, have a role to play in the negotiations.

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