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 …
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BAKU / YEREVAN: Azerbaijan it said on Sunday that Armenian forces had fired rockets at its second city of Ganja, killing one civilian and wounding four, and threatened to retaliate by destroying military targets inside Armenia. The events marked a sharp escalation of the war in the South Caucasus that …
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