Azerbaijan and ethnic Armenian forces clashed in several parts of Nagorno-Karabakh on Friday, as the United States stepped up diplomatic efforts to try to end the deadliest fighting in the mountain enclave for over a quarter of a century. In Washington, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met separately with the foreign ministers of Azerbaijan … Read more
Armenian and Azerbaijani bombardments of major cities have raised fears that many more civilians than the 42 reported dead are being killed. Separatist forces in Karabakh – an ethnic Armenian enclave that broke away from Azerbaijan in the 1990s – reported firefights along the frontline on Monday with the regional capital Stepanakert under heavy artillery … Read more
Azerbaijan’s second-largest city, Ganja, has been hit by heavy shelling today as the country’s forces exchanged heavy rocket and artillery fire with Armenia over disputed territory. Fighting over Nagorno-Karabakh has intensified between the two nations’ forces in the last week, with the breakaway region’s capital and Azerbaijan’s Ganja both hit today. Armenia said that Nagorno-Karabakh’s main … Read more
Turkey warned today that ‘the world will hear our roar’ if its ally Azerbaijan suffers ‘the slightest injustice’ in its battle with Armenia – as the conflict threatens to escalate into a proxy war between Ankara and Moscow. President Erdogan’s spokesman Fahrettin Altun said Turkey ‘stands with Azerbaijan, our friend and brethren’ as fighting raged … Read more
Fighting raged again between Armenia and Azerbaijan last night as the two ex-Soviet nations battle over a disputed region in a conflict which could erupt into a proxy war between Russia and Turkey. Azerbaijan aired footage of two Armenian tanks being blown up on the battlefield while Armenia claimed to have taken out 80 armoured … Read more