Tag: NagornoKarabakh
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Nagorno-Karabakh: Iran Among the Entangled
[ad_1] By: Salman Rafi Sheikh Flaring tensions in the Southern Caucasian region are drawing in competing geopolitical interests including not just the Armenians and Azerbaijanis, who have been slugging it out in the Nagorno-Karabakh region, but a Russia weakened by its invasion of Ukraine, as well as Turkey, Iran, and inevitably the US-led NATO. As…
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Nagorno-Karabakh Government Says It Will Disband
[ad_1] The breakaway government of Nagorno-Karabakh said on Thursday that it would cease to exist, formally ending more than 30 years of separatist rule, a week after a swift attack by Azerbaijan returned the mountainous enclave to Azerbaijani rule. In a decree published by the official news service of the Republic of Artsakh — the…
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Nagorno-Karabakh Fuel Depot Blast Kills at Least 20
[ad_1] Officials said on Tuesday that at least 20 people had been killed, and nearly 300 wounded, in an explosion at a fuel depot in the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan on Monday. Emergency workers took 290 patients “with various degrees of burns” to four different medical facilities after the blast near the city of…
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Hundreds Injured After Fuel Depot Blast in Nagorno-Karabakh, Official Says
[ad_1] More than 200 people were wounded on Monday in a fuel depot explosion in Azerbaijan’s breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region, the human rights ombudsman for the region said. The cause of the explosion could not immediately be determined, and it was not clear if there were any fatalities, but Armenian separatist officials said, “There are victims…
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Azerbaijan seizes arms from Nagorno-Karabakh rebels
[ad_1] Azerbaijan forces tightened their grip on the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh on Saturday as international concern mounted over the plight of ethnic Armenian civilians trapped there. As the first Red Cross aid convoy crossed into the disputed enclave since Azerbaijan launched this week’s lightning offensive, government forces said rebel “demilitarisation” had begun. Moscow announced…
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Azerbaijan to begin ‘reintegration’ of Nagorno-Karabakh – POLITICO
[ad_1] YEREVAN, Armenia — Armenian leaders in the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh on Thursday met with Azerbaijani officials to discuss the dissolution of their unrecognized state, in the wake of a lightning offensive that they say left them with no choice but to surrender. Following a two-hour summit in the Azerbaijani city of Yevlakh on Thursday,…
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Azerbaijan Begins a Military Operation in Nagorno-Karabakh
[ad_1] Azerbaijan said on Tuesday that it had launched a new military operation against an Armenian enclave inside its territory, raising fears of an expanding armed conflict in a fragile region in which the interests of Russia, Turkey and Western countries are increasingly colliding. The Azerbaijani Defense Ministry said in a statement that its forces…
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The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict explained – POLITICO
[ad_1] Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. Fierce firefights and heavy shelling echo once again around the mountains of Nagorno-Karabakh, an isolated region at the very edge of Europe that has seen several major wars since the fall of the Soviet Union. On Tuesday, the South Caucasus nation of Azerbaijan…
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Azerbaijan declares victory in lightning Nagorno-Karabakh offensive – POLITICO
[ad_1] Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. YEREVAN, Armenia — Azerbaijan on Wednesday declared victory after a daylong military assault on Nagorno-Karabakh, during which Baku pounded the ethnic-Armenian controlled region with artillery fire. Nagorno-Karabakh’s ethnic Armenian leadership on Wednesday morning agreed to a cease-fire in an effort to prevent further…
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U.N. Security Council to discuss Nagorno-Karabakh crisis amid genocide warnings – POLITICO
[ad_1] YEREVAN — The U.N. Security Council has scheduled an emergency meeting to discuss the worsening humanitarian situation in the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh, after Armenia urged the international community to help end Azerbaijan’s months-long blockade of the isolated territory. A schedule for the work of the Security Council, published late Monday night, confirmed that…
