Nagorno-Karabakh

Azerbaijan and its rebel Nagorno-Karabakh region accused each other on Friday of violating a ceasefire with intense shelling, … .

Azerbaijani tanks shelled positions in the Nagorno-Karabakh region for the first time in 21 years, the Defense Ministry for the breakaway region said on December 9.

Armenia has threatened to make "retaliatory" artillery and rocket strikes against Azerbaijani forces after Armenian soldiers and civilians were killed in the past two days.

Azerbaijan's separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh went to the polls yesterday (3 May) to elect a new parliament in a vote denounced as illegitimate by Baku and the West.

Deadly clashes erupted between troops from Azerbaijan and the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region on Tuesday, the two sides said, giving conflicting casualty tolls and disputing who was to blame.
Violence has intensified this year around Nagorno-Karabakh.

Beyond eastern Ukraine, another simmering conflict threatens to erupt - Nagorno-Karabakh.

Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian said his country is prepared for any eventuality in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and warned Azerbaijan he would use "asymmetrical" responses to any military threats.

Armenian and Azeri leaders have agreed to pursue talks over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region after resuming direct contacts at a meeting in Paris Monday (27 October), the French government said.

The one thing both Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev definitely agreed on in Sochi is that Russia should not introduce peacekeepers into the region.

Deadly skirmishes have erupted recently between Azerbaijani and Armenian forces over the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh, with each side blaming the other for the escalation in violence.