Turkey stirring the pot? Why Armenians, Azeris are fighting again.
Oct 05, 2020
3 minutes
After lying largely dormant for decades, conflict has escalated in the past week between Azerbaijan and Armenia over the enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh. At least 250 people have been killed, and a largely local ethnic dispute runs the risk of turning into a wider regional war.
As artillery, drone, and rocket attacks increasingly target population centers on both sides, rival leaders have staked out uncompromising positions over the fate of the mountainous ethnic Armenian enclave carved out of Azerbaijani territory.
Nagorno-Karabakh, still recognized as part of Azerbaijan,
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