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Armenia says at least 49 of its soldiers have been killed in clashes along the border with Azerbaijan...

"As we have long made clear, there can be no military solution to the conflict," US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement. Azerbaijani media said the ceasefire broke down within 15 minutes. "The intensity of hostilities has decreased but attacks on one or two fronts from Azerbaijan continue," Pashinyan said in a speech to parliament, according to Russian media.

On Tuesday, according to officials in Yerevan, the defense minister of Armenia Suren Papikyan claimed that he met with Sergei Shoigu and that they decided to ...

In the most recent escalation between the bitter rivals both Armenia and Azerbaijan have reported new border confrontations that have claimed the lives of a number of Azerbaijani soldiers. On Tuesday, according to officials in Yerevan, the defense minister of Armenia Suren Papikyan claimed that he met with Sergei Shoigu and that they decided to take the necessary steps to stabilize the situation. Armenia and Russia have decided to take coordinated action to stabilize the situation along Armenia’s border with Azerbaijan Following devastating nighttime confrontations.

A Russian peacekeeper guars an entrance of the Dadivank, an Armenian Apostolic Church . ... Two years ago, the frozen conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia over ...

"If you're going to be an ally of the United States, you shouldn't be locking people up for political speech," he said on the floor. The [recent appointment of PHILIP REEKER as a senior adviser for Caucasus negotiations](https://www.state.gov/new-senior-advisor-for-caucasus-negotiations/) won’t do much to change the situation, either, experts say. “The current backlog is unacceptable and impedes veterans’ ability to access the services they have earned. [49 Armenian troops](https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/9/13/what-is-behind-the-armenia-azerbaijan-conflict-flare-up), the country’s Prime Minister NIKOL PASHINYAN said, as well as [50 dead Azerbaijani forces](https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/9/13/what-is-behind-the-armenia-azerbaijan-conflict-flare-up). “The Arab tribesmen in Syria seeking vengeance are now part of a growing network of tribal spies playing a significant role in the U.S. The Biden administration downgraded intelligence that said Russia was looking to Iran to buy drones for the war in Ukraine. “Together Britain, the United States and Ukraine conducted an assessment of the new plan, trying to war game it once more. We provided that advice, and then the Ukrainians internalized that and made their own decision.” The Ukrainian generals and American officials believed that such a large-scale attack would incur immense casualties and fail to quickly retake large amounts of territory,” [Both sides blame the other](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-62888891) for reigniting the powder keg. And Russia, which sent peacekeepers to stop the war two years ago, is a little tied up at the moment in Ukraine. [Email Alex](mailto:[email protected])

The Armenian Defense Ministry claimed Azerbaijan Armed Forces conducted artillery strikes toward Armenian border towns Tuesday morning. According to the ...

Azerbaijan has long claimed it will retake the territory, which is internationally recognized as Azerbaijani. The Armenian Defense Ministry claimed Azerbaijan Armed Forces conducted artillery strikes toward Armenian border towns Tuesday morning. Armenia denied the allegations.

Armenian prime minister Nikol Pashinyan said in Parliament that Azerbaijani forces attacked about half a dozen points, the news agency Interfax reported.

Azerbaijan reclaimed broad swaths of Nagorno-Karabakh in a six-week war in 2020 that killed more than 6,600 people and ended with a Russia-brokered peace deal. Azerbaijan charged that its forces returned fire in response to “large-scale provocations” by the Armenian military, claiming that the Armenian troops planted mines and repeatedly fired on Azerbaijani military positions, resulting in unspecified casualties and damage to military infrastructure. Azerbaijan and Armenia have been locked in a decades-old conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh, which is part of Azerbaijan but has been under the control of ethnic Armenian forces backed by Armenia since a separatist war there ended in 1994.

At least 49 Armenian soldiers and 50 Azeri military personnel have been killed in the deadliest fighting between...

"Any actions against the territorial integrity and sovereignty of the Republic of Azerbaijan will be resolutely prevented." "Responsibility for the provocation, clashes and losses lies with the military-political leadership of Armenia," the Azerbaijani foreign ministry said. "That has created a window of opportunity for Azerbaijan, recalling that the outcome of the second war in 2020 left unfinished business." "Since February, we also have been seeing the collapse of Russia's reputation as a security patron and a provider of security in the region," Broers said. Advertisement "It is difficult to overestimate the role of the Russian Federation, the role of Putin personally," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.

The fighting between the two countries is the worst since the end of a 2020 war over the Nagorno-Karabakh region that left more than 6500 dead on both ...

The ensuing conflict claimed around 30,000 lives. "The war in Ukraine has changed the balance of forces in the region and Russia — which is a guarantor of peace in the region — is in a very bad shape. In August, Azerbaijan said it had lost a soldier and the Karabakh army said two of its troops had been killed and more than a dozen wounded. Armenian political analyst Tatul Hakobyan said the escalation in fighting was a consequence of the "deadlock" in Armenian-Azerbaijani peace talks. Iran, which shares a border with both countries, urged "restraint" and a "peaceful resolution" to the fighting. "The enemy is trying to advance" into Armenian territory, it said in a statement.

At least 49 Armenian soldiers have reportedly been killed by Azerbaijan in a conflict highlighting the fragility of the former Soviet region beyond Ukraine.

The Russian province of Chechnya also has a bloody modern history. The US secretary of state and the EU foreign relations chief also called for restraint. "Armenia should cease its provocations," Turkish foreign minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said. Azerbaijan denied any ceasefire violation and accused Armenia of moving weapons systems to sensitive spots, in a conflict with no international monitors on the contact line to verify claims. The killings were meant to scupper upcoming talks on the future status of a fiercely-disputed mountain region — Nagorno-Karabakh — Pashinyan also said. Azerbaijan had fired on the Armenian border towns of Jermuk, Goris, and Kapan using drones, mortars, and long-range artillery in the small hours of Tuesday, Armenia said.

Armenia accused Azerbaijan of an unprovoked attack on September 13th, after its neighbour conducted overnight artillery and drone strikes against Armenian ...

Armenia has asked Russia to invoke a treaty which commits Moscow to come to its defence in the event of an attack by a foreign country. Azerbaijan may have decided that the time was ripe to use armed force to force its neighbour into accepting a settlement on Azerbaijan’s terms: for one thing, Russia seems too bogged down in Ukraine to intervene on Armenia’s behalf. By the time Russia, an Armenian ally, imposed a ceasefire six weeks later, Azerbaijan had recovered swathes of the province, as well as a number of other districts occupied by Armenia.