A rocket attack hit the cathedral and three journalists were injured in the attack. According to the Nagorno-Karabakh authorities, 140,000 have so far fled the area and 400 have been victims of the fighting.

Fighting continued Thursday in Nagorno-Karabakh, a disputed country of affiliation, inhabited mainly by Armenians. A missile hit an Armenian cathedral in Susa and three journalists were injured in the attack.

In Susa, about 15 kilometers south of Stepanakert, the cathedral suffered significant damage, including a large hole in its roof, broken glass, debris and dust covering overturned benches, an AFP correspondent at the scene reported.

The city, where both Azerbaijani Muslim and Christian Armenian cultures were present for a long time, is often referred to as Jerusalem in Nagorno-Karabakh. The cathedral, one of the national symbols of Armenians, was built after the first Karabakh war in the early 1990s.

Baku denied that the Susa cathedral had been damaged as a result of the Azerbaijani operations. “The Azerbaijani army will not attack historical, cultural and especially non-church buildings,” the Baku Defense Ministry said.

Three journalists were also injured in the Sushi attack, one of them in serious condition, Nagorno-Karabakh authorities said.

The seriously injured journalist is a Russian journalist from the Russian news portal Szegodnya.ru, the other an Armenian citizen and the third a member of the international press whose nationality has not yet been disclosed.

They were discussed in Geneva

Three Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group (Russia, France and the United States) met with Azerbaijan’s Foreign Minister Ceyhun Bayramov in Geneva on Thursday. Their next meeting will be held in Moscow, according to a previous announcement by French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian on October 12.

The Minsk Group has been trying to find a negotiated solution to the conflict since the mid-1990s. The first war between the Armenian separatists and the Azeris left 30,000 dead.

A spokesman for the Armenian Foreign Ministry who accused Azerbaijan of aggression against Nagorno-Karabakh had previously ruled out participation in the Geneva talks, saying that

You cannot trade with one hand and trade with the other.

Armenia’s foreign minister is scheduled to hold separate talks in Moscow with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov and with US, French and Russian officials on Monday.

In Armenia, meanwhile, the head of the National Security Agency was replaced without any justification.

Four hundred dead

According to the Nagorno-Karabakh authorities, some 140,000 Nagorno-Karabakh have left their homes due to the fighting that lasted 12 days. At least four hundred people were killed in the clashes that resumed on September 27.

The resumption of fighting has caused concern, as Turkey, a close ally of Baku, and Russia, which has a federal treaty with Armenia, could also become involved in the conflict.

The clashes have also raised concerns about the security of oil and gas pipelines to Europe through Azerbaijan. Moscow fears that, with the help of Turkey, Islamist terrorists could reach Nagorno-Karabakh, which could be used as a base to invade Russia.

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev linked the ceasefire with an Armenian withdrawal from Nagorno-Karabakh and its surroundings. Armenia calls him excluded from withdrawing from its claimed territory and accuses Turkey of militarily intervening in the conflicts and sending mercenaries to the fighting, which Ankara rejects.



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The most severe attack to date has taken place in Nagorno-Karabakh.


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Air defense sirens sounded hourly at Stepanakert last night. Armenian and Azerbaijani reports also reported that fighting was continuing, the former claiming to have detained three brigades.

Karabakh War: Azerbaijan and Armenia continue to shoot each other


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Azerbaijani forces are firing rockets at the Nagorno-Karabakh capital, Stepanakert, and Armenian forces are attacking several Azerbaijani cities, Armenian and Azerbaijani defense ministers said Monday morning.