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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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By: Desk Explained | New Delhi | Updated: November 10, 2020 11:21:36 pm Azerbaijanis celebrate the peace agreement in Baku on November 10 (Photo: AP) On Tuesday (November 10), Russia negotiated a new peace agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan, the two countries that have been in a military conflict for …
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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 …
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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 …
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Written by Neha Banka | Updated: October 10, 2020 3:58:13 pm A meeting in Yerevan, Armenia, on September 27 to recruit military volunteers. (Photo: Reuters) Varos Boyajyan’s family waits with the mobile phone nearby, hoping to hear from the eldest son of the family, who has been sent to Nagorno-Karabakh …
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By: AP | Moscow | Updated: October 10, 2020 8:12:25 am Pigeons fly near the Cathedral of the Holy Mother of God in Stepanakert during a military conflict in the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh on Friday, October 9, 2020. Armenia and Azerbaijan say they agreed to a ceasefire in Nagorno-Karbakh …
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YEREVAN: Arch enemies Armenia Y Azerbaijan on Sunday they accused each other of starting deadly clashes that claimed at least 23 lives during a decades-long territorial dispute and threatened to lure regional powers Russia and Turkey. The worst fighting since 2016 has raised the specter of a new war between …
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