Azerbaijan launches military operation targeting Armenian positions; 2 civilians reportedly killed, including child
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The Azerbaijani defense ministry announced the start of the operation hours after four soldiers and two civilians died in landmine explosions in the Nagorno-Karabakh region.
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YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — Azerbaijan on Tuesday began what it called an “anti-terrorist operation” targeting Armenian military positions in the Nagorno-Karabakh region and officials in that region said there was heavy artillery firing around its capital.
A conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh has simmered for decades between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Now fighting has resumed, with Azerbaijan shelling several towns in the disputed region.
Baku's Defense Ministry earlier blamed six deaths in the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region on Armenian separatists. It comes three years after a war with neighboring Armenia over the region.
Azerbaijan launches a military operation in Nagorno-Karabakh, escalating tensions with Armenia and putting civilians and Russian peacekeepers in the region at risk.
The Azerbaijani defense ministry announced the start of the operation hours after four soldiers and two civilians died in landmine explosions in the Nagorno-Karabakh region.
At least 200 people have been killed and over 400 others wounded in a military operation by Azerbaijan in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region, according to an official in Armenian-controlled territory there.
Russia has long maintained the status quo in the Armenian-populated region of Nagorno-Karabakh in Azerbaijan. But Moscow no longer appears willing to do so, and Azerbaijanis are taking the region back by force.
Azerbaijan said Tuesday it had launched "anti-terrorist operations" in Nagorno-Karabakh, almost three years after it went to war over the disputed mountainous region with Armenia.
YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — Azerbaijan on Tuesday began what it called an “anti-terrorist operation” targeting Armenian military positions in the Nagorno-Karabakh region and officials in that region said there was heavy artillery firing around its capital.
Addressing the UN General Assembly in New York, Erdogan said the contested Nagorno-Karabakh region is Azerbaijani territory, as US and Russia rejected Baku's offensive.
Azerbaijan has demanded that Armenian separatists in the region must surrender - Copyright POOL/AFP Evan VucciFarhad GASYMOVAzerbaijan on Tuesday launched a military operation against the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region, warning it would “continue until the end” in the territory, over which it has…
The Azerbaijani Defense Ministry said it had begun “local anti-terrorist operations” against an Armenian enclave, raising fears of a new armed conflict.
