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Armenia and Azerbaijan blame each other after numerous breaches of a humanitarian cease-fire signed on October 10. Caucasus expert Thomas de Waal, a senior fellow with Carnegie Europe, and Aleksei Malashenko, the chief researcher at the Dialogue of Civilizations think tank, explain what obstacles exist to a lasting peace.
The death toll is mounting in the fighting between the Armenian and Azerbaijani forces over the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region, with both sides blaming each other for the collapse of a U.S.-brokered cease-fire -- the third since the decades-old...
Azerbaijan has handed over to Armenia the bodies of 29 servicemen killed in the ongoing fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh, as the death toll mounted in the latest flareup of violence in the decades-old conflict over the separatist region.
Armenia and Azerbaijan accused each other of shelling civilian targets on October 28 and breaking a U.S.-brokered truce. The Armenian Defense Ministry said several buildings in Nagorno-Karabakh’s main city, Stepanakert, were hit and that it was cl...
Diplomatic efforts to end the fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the separatist Nagorno-Karabakh region have intensified after the two sides blamed each other for the collapse of a U.S. brokered cease-fire.
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The cease-fire was agreed upon Sunday after talks facilitated by the United States and came after two failed attempts by Russia to broker a lasting truce in the flare-up of a decades-old conflict.
The conflict has led to a war of words on Canadian soil between the two communities.
Armenia and Azerbaijan have again blamed each other for the collapse of a U.S.-brokered cease-fire in the month-long fighting in the separatist Nagorno-Karabakh region.
As early as 8 a.m. GMT, officials from both former Soviet states said they were adhering to the ceasefire agreement when they were subjected to open artillery fire and enemy shelling.
