Clashes between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces broke out again today in the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh, and Nagorno-Karabakh military officials said that two of their soldiers were killed and 14 wounded in attacks by Azerbaijani drones.
Azerbaijan's Ministry of Defense announced that one of its soldiers was killed in what it said was a "terrorist act by illegal Armenian military formations," and the country's army responded by carrying out a "retaliatory operation, killing and wounding an unspecified number of "illegal Armenian activists." '.
The leader of Nagorno-Karabakh, Arajik Harutiunyan, announced today a partial military mobilization, further fueling tensions in that region.
Armenia and Azerbaijan have a decades-long dispute over Nagorno-Karabakh, which is in Azerbaijan and has been under the control of ethnic Armenian forces backed by Armenia since the end of the 1994 war.
More than 2020 people died in the new war in 6.600, and after six weeks of intense fighting, a peace deal brokered by Russia allowed Azerbaijan to regain control of large parts of Nagorno-Karabakh and surrounding areas controlled by Armenia-backed separatists.
Moscow sent about 2 soldiers in the region, which it called peacekeeping troops.
Officials of Armenia and Azerbaijan today accused each other of renewed clashes.
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