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Destruction Mounts As Azerbaijan And Armenia Increase Hostilities

Azerbaijan's second-largest city was targeted by missiles on Sunday, government officials say. Armenia denied the charges. The clash is part of a decades-long dispute over territory.
Smoke rises in the aftermath of recent shelling during the ongoing fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan on Sunday.

A decades-long dispute over territory in the southern Caucasus has led to open hostilities between Azerbaijan and Armenia this past week. Azerbaijan's second-largest city, Ganja, came under attack Sunday, with government officials saying Armenia had launched missiles into residential areas. Armenia has denied the charges; the leader of the territory at the center of the

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