Armenia and Azerbaijan have accused each other of firing into each other’s territory, far from the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone, as the worst spate of fighting since the 1990s raged for a third day.
Armenia and Azerbaijan have accused each other of firing into the other’s territory, far from the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone, as theDozens have been reported killed and hundreds wounded since the fierce clashes between Azerbaijan and its ethnic Armenian mountain enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh broke out on Sunday in a new eruption of a decades-old conflict.
Nagorno-Karabakh is a breakaway region that is inside Azerbaijan but is run by ethnic Armenians and is supported by Armenia. It broke away from Azerbaijan in a war in the 1990s, but is not recognised by any country as an independent republic. “The Armenian border with Azerbaijan is relatively calm”, defence ministry official Artsrun Hovhannisyan said.
A mother and her child were killed in Martuni on Sunday, the defence ministry of Nagorno-Karabakh said.The clashes have reignited concern over stability in the South Caucasus region, a corridor for pipelines carrying oil and gas to world markets.
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