Optimism that upcoming talks in Washington will quell fighting between Azerbaijani and ethnic Armenian forces over the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh appeared to dim as the two sides engaged in new battles and leaders in Baku and Yerevan hardened their positions.
A bakery in Stepanakert is working 24 hours a day making fresh bread for locals who’ve remained in Nagorno-Karabakh’s main city while a war continues over the region.
As fighting rages, the threat of COVID-19 has been partially, if not completely eclipsed for those living in and around Nagorno-Karabakh. Hundreds of people have been killed since the conflict between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces began last month -- but cases of the coronavirus are also mounting.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has told the nation that he sees no possibility of a diplomatic solution to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, dampening international efforts to forge a sustainable truce between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the breakaway territory.
AFP photo agency has two of its most experienced photographers working on either side of the ongoing conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan. This is what they have witnessed since the latest flare-up over the breakaway Azerbaijani region of Nagorno-Karabakh erupted on September 27.
A cease-fire in the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh was under severe strain on October 20 after new clashes erupted between Azerbaijani and ethnic Armenian forces despite international pressure for the warring sides to halt the fighting.
An 84th birthday party in a bomb shelter, and a new home shattered by missile fire -- these were just two moments captured by reporters after another cease-fire was agreed -- and broken -- in fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan in and around the breakaway Azerbaijani region of Nagorno-Karabakh.
A new cease-fire aimed at stopping the fighting over the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh appears to be in jeopardy, with ethnic Armenian forces and Azerbaijan accusing each other of renewed shelling.
Armenia and Azerbaijan have accused each other of violating a new cease-fire aimed at stopping the fighting over the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Armenia and Azerbaijan say they have agreed on a new cease-fire to stop the escalating fighting over the Nagorno-Karabakh region.
New clashes were reported on October 16 between Azerbaijani and Armenian forces in and around the breakaway region at the center of decades of Caucasus conflict in a further sign of the challenges to ending heavy fighting that has killed hundreds in the past three weeks.
Iran's Foreign Ministry has issued a fresh warning to Armenia and Azerbaijan after stray fire from their conflict over the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region reportedly wounded one person on the Iranian side of the border.
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