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Armenia and Azerbaijan agreed to end military operations in and around Nagorno-Karabakh in a Russian-brokered ceasefire. The story so far: After six weeks of fierce fighting, Armenia and Azerbaijan agreed to end military operations in and around Nagorno-Karabakh in a ceasefire negotiated by Russian President Vladimir Putin. An estimated 2,000 …

Nagorno-Karabakh is located within Azerbaijan, but has been under the control of ethnic Armenian forces backed by Armenia since the separatist war ended in 1994. The Armenian Foreign Minister submitted his resignation on November 16 amid the political turmoil that has affected the country after a ceasefire agreement for the …

YEREVAN: Armenia on Saturday he said that more than two thousand fighters died in six weeks of clashes with Azerbaijan about the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region. “To date, our forensic service has examined the bodies of 2,317 dead military personnel, including unidentified ones,” Armenian Ministry of Health spokeswoman Alina Nikoghosyan wrote …

Residents on the outskirts of Nagorno-Karabakh set their houses on fire on Saturday before fleeing to Armenia ahead of the weekend deadline that will see the disputed territory handed over to Azerbaijan as part of a peace deal. Residents of Azerbaijan’s Kalbajar district, which was controlled by Armenian separatists for …

Russian President Vladimir Putin negotiated a deal to end a 44-day war over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region after the Armenians, who were facing defeat at the hands of the Azerbaijani army, agreed to stop fighting and withdraw their forces. Russia began deploying nearly 2,000 troops as peacekeepers on Tuesday under …

A Kremlin spokesman confirmed the news, Russian agencies reported. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said he signed an agreement with the leaders of Azerbaijan and Russia to end the military conflict in the Nagorno-Karabakh region on Tuesday morning after more than a month of bloodshed. A Kremlin spokesman confirmed the …

A third person was injured and evacuated, the Defense Ministry in Moscow said. (Figurative) Baku, Azerbaijan: Azerbaijan admitted Monday that it had shot down a Russian military helicopter on its border with Armenia and apologized. Two crew members were killed and a third injured when the helicopter was shot down …

Azeris celebrated in the streets of Baku after President Ilham Aliyev said Sunday that his country’s forces had taken Shusha, the second-largest city in the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave, but Armenian officials denied that the city had been captured. Shusha, which Armenians call Shushi, is of cultural and strategic importance to both …

Clashes between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces continued on Sunday in the separatist Nagorno-Karabakh territory, and Azerbaijan’s second-largest city was attacked. Azerbaijani officials said on Sunday that Armenian forces attacked Ganja, the country’s second-largest city. Hikmet Hajiyev, an aide to the President of Azerbaijan, tweeted a video showing damaged buildings and …

YEREVAN: Twenty-six separatist fighters were killed in clashes with Azerbaijani troops late Monday in Azerbaijanthe Nagorny break Karabakh region, the rebels‘the Defense Ministry said, bringing the number of military deaths to 84. World leaders have urged a halt fighting after the worst escalation since 2016 raised the specter of a …