WAR Main Armenia Versus Azerbaijan War Thread - Open Hostilities Underway Now

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Azerbaijan's Ministry of Defense: "At about 15:10, units of the Armenian Armed Forces opened fire from small arms at the positions of our army located in the direction of the settlement of Minkend in the Lachin region. The units of our army took adequate response measures"
 
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#Russia's peacekeeping contingent in #NagornoKarabakh: in a unilateral and uncoordinated move, #Azerbaijan blocked transit through Lachin corridor over Hakkari bridge near peacekeeping observation post nº 1, negotiations underway with Azeri side.

Source: https://mil.ru/russian_peacek
 
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US Secretary of State Blinken will meet with Azerbaijani FM Jeyhun Bayramov today in Washington at 9am. At 9:45 Blinken will meet with the foreign ministers of both Azerbaijan and Armenia. The conference is scheduled to last several days.
 
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Your periodic reminder: Armenia is a satellite of Russia and an ally of Iran. Just ask the WSJ | "Consequently, Tehran works with Moscow and Yerevan, in a tripartite axis designed to counterbalance the Turkish-Israeli-Azerbaijani alignment. The axis is working to scuttle the peace talks. It has been aided, indirectly, by French President Emmanuel Macron, who has devoted significant energy to diplomacy in the South Caucasus, where his efforts clearly favor Armenia over Azerbaijan."
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A peace deal to end Armenia and Azerbaijan's three-decade-old dispute over the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave is "within reach" after four days of talks in Washington, US top diplomat Antony Blinken said
 
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#BREAKING: Terror attack on Israeli embassy in Azerbaijan thwarted

● Afghanistan citizen conspired with other people to attack the embassy

● The suspect was arrested by the Azeri authorities after being observed in the scope of the Israeli mission and is currently being investigated by the local authorities.

● The security services of Azerbaijan and Israel work in close cooperation

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started a new thread for those constant complaints re: being unable/unwilling to find things in "big threads". . .

INTL - Armenia's Pashinyan says war with Azerbaijan 'likely' unless peace treaty signed - AFP

Armenia's Pashinyan says war with Azerbaijan 'likely' unless peace treaty signed - AFP TBILISI, July 21 (Reuters) - Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said in an interview with the French AFP news agency published on Friday that a new war with Azerbaijan was "very likely" if the two...
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Azerbaijan launches military operation Escalation in Nagorno-Karabakh!​

Breaking news – more soon at BILD

An Azerbaijani tank rolls down a road after a region in Nagorno-Karabakh was handed over to Azerbaijani control (archive photo)

Photo: Emrah Gurel/dpa
September 19, 2023 - 4:54 p.m

Autocratically ruled Azerbaijan said it began “anti-terror operations” in the Nagorno-Karabakh region on Tuesday.
The military operations were directed against Armenian forces, Azerbaijan's Defense Ministry said. The capital Stepanakert of the disputed region is under “intense fire,” Armenian authorities report. Azerbaijan has launched a “large-scale military offensive”.

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Reporters from the AFP news agency heard several explosions. Videos on social networks are also said to show rocket launches. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan (48) later said that Azerbaijan's army was also taking action against his country on the ground.
Explosive: Russia is considered Armenia's protecting power. At the beginning of last week, Armenia began a joint military exercise with the USA. The Kremlin raged! Russia apparently feared losing its influence over the country.
After the start of the "anti-terror operations", Azerbaijan claims that Turkey and Russia were informed about the action.

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According to Azerbaijani reports, six people were previously killed in mine explosions.
Azerbaijani security forces said two civilians were killed by a mine planted by Armenian "sabotage groups" on a road towards the city of Shusha in the Azerbaijani-controlled part of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Four police officers were later killed in another mine explosion on the way to the explosion site.
Azerbaijan and Armenia have been fighting over Nagorno-Karabakh since the collapse of the Soviet Union and have already fought two wars over the area. Nagorno-Karabakh belongs to Azerbaijan under international law, but the area is predominantly populated by Armenians. After six weeks of fighting in 2020 with more than 6,500 deaths, Russia brokered a ceasefire agreement that forced Armenia to give up large areas.
Since then, there have been repeated deadly clashes on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border. In recent months, tensions over the heavily mined Nagorno-Karabakh have increased significantly again.
Map: New military operation in Nagorno-Karabakh – infographic
 
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Fears of a Second War in Europe as Azerbaijan Launches Military Attack​


LAST THING WE NEED
The move threatens to reignite a full-blown war between Armenia and Azerbaijan.

Allison Quinn​


News Editor
Updated Sep. 19, 2023 11:37AM EDT / Published Sep. 19, 2023 8:25AM EDT
A man shepherds his cows near a rocket case left after a military conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh region, outside Stepanakert, Jan. 6, 2021.

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Several deaths have been reported after Azerbaijan carried out strikes on the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region on Tuesday in an “anti-terror” operation that threatens to trigger another war in the region.
The country’s Defense Ministry said it was using “high-precision weapons” to “incapacitate” Armenian-backed forces and target Armenian military positions in a push to force out “formations of Armenia’s armed forces.”
Footage purportedly filmed in Stepanakert, the capital of Karabakh, which is called Khankendi by Azerbaijan, captured the sounds of loud shelling and artillery fire.
“At this moment, the capital Stepanakert and other cities and villages are under intensive fire,” an Armenia-based separatist group warned on social media, calling it a “large-scale military offensive.”

Armenian separatists said two civilians had been killed and nearly two dozen others wounded in Azerbaijan’s shelling, while authorities in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, blamed Armenian separatists in Karabakh for the mortar shelling death of a civilian in the city of Shusha.
Meanwhile, hundreds of protesters took to the streets in the Armenian capital of Yerevan to demand action be taken over Baku’s military operation—with some of them chanting that Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan is a “traitor.”
Pashinyan accused Azerbaijan of “ethnic cleansing” in Karabakh but vowed that Yerevan would not “take any rash actions.” Instead, he called on the United Nations and Russia, which has a peacekeeping mission in the region, to “take steps” to stop the conflict. Fears of a 2nd War in Europe as Azerbaijan Launches Attack
 
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EMERGENCY – Pashinyan hands over Nagorno-Karabakh to Azerbaijan: Fears of coup in Armenia – Protesters besiege government buildings​

Towards a change of borders in the Caucasus​

19/09/2023 - 21:09
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EMERGENCY – Pashinyan hands over Nagorno-Karabakh to Azerbaijan: Fears of coup in Armenia – Protesters besiege government buildings

Rapid developments are taking place in the Caucasus, as protesters besiege government buildings in Yerevan demanding that Armenia's prime minister resign immediately.

Snipers were deployed outside government buildings and the presidential palace while police struggled to repel the enraged Armenians.

The reason is the passive attitude of Pashinyan, who ordered all military personnel of the Armenian Armed Forces not to open fire on Azerbaijani troops along the border.

This means that Pashinyan left Nargorno, Karabakh or Artsakh. The borders in the Caucasus are changing. The Azeris will retake the entire territory they lost in 1994.

Aliyev: "The operation will continue until the illegal Armenian formations raise the white flag"​

The Azerbaijani military continues its offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh while Armenian Prime Minister Pashinyan holds close telephone conversations with the head of the US State Department, Antony Blinken.

Azerbaijani troops are hitting military targets on the territory of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, which in fact found itself without military assistance from Yerevan.

Pashinyan directly stated that there will be no deployment of the Armenian army in Karabakh and that there are currently no units of the Armenian Armed Forces in Artsakh.

Azerbaijan has asked Armenian armed groups in Nagorno-Karabakh, which it described as "illegal", to surrender or continue its "anti-terrorist operation to the end", the state news agency reported, citing the presidency's administration.

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev stressed that the purpose of the operation (called anti-terrorism by Baku) is to restore Azerbaijan's constitutional order in Karabakh.

"The operation will continue until the illegal armed formations of the Armenians raise the white flag. We are ready for a meeting in Yevlakh (a city in Azerbaijan) with representatives of the Armenian population living in the Karabakh region of our country," Aliyev stressed.

Rage in Yerevan: "Nikol is a traitor"

Hundreds of protesters have already gathered in Yerevan's government square.
Armenians blame Pashinyan for what is happening now in Karabakh and demand that he protect the Armenians living in the region.

"Nicole is a traitor," protesters chant.

Meanwhile, Armenian Prime Minister Pashinyan denounced those calling for a "coup" in his country, following the military operations launched by Azerbaijan in the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave.

"We must not allow certain individuals, certain forces, to carry out a coup in Armenia.

There are already calls from various parties for a coup in Armenia," he said in his address to the nation.

Armenian television said hundreds of protesters had gathered outside the government headquarters in Yerevan.

Opposition parties called on their supporters to demonstrate at 18.00 (Greek time).

The opposition has tried several times over the past three years to topple Pashinyan, accusing him of being responsible for defeat in the brief war with Azerbaijan in autumn 2020. Then, the mass mobilizations that followed forced Pashinyan to call early elections.

Pashinyan himself became prime minister after the 2018 protests.

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Ο Πασινιάν παραδίδει το Ναγκόρνο Καραμπάχ στο Αζερμπαϊτζάν: Φόβοι για

Ραγδαίες είναι οι εξελίξεις στον Καύκασο, καθώς διαδηλωτές πολιορκούν τα κυβερνητικά κτίρια στο Ερεβάν ζητώντας από τον πρωθυπουργό της Αρμενίας, Ν.Πασινιάν, να παραιτηθεί άμεσα. O Πασινιάν κατηγορεί κύκλους εντός και εκτός χώρας ότι “επιδιώκουν πραξικόπημα”. Πριν λίγο αναπτύχθηκαν ελεύθεροι...
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If indeed Pashinyan handed over Nagorno-Karabakh to Azerbaijan, then there will be a coup in Armenia.

For Armenian Prime Minister Pashinyan to hold close telephone conversations with the head of the US State Department, Antony Blinken, means the US is trying to draw Russia and Iran into this conflict.
 
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EMERGENCY – Pashinyan hands over Nagorno-Karabakh to Azerbaijan: Fears of coup in Armenia – Protesters besiege government buildings​

Towards a change of borders in the Caucasus​

19/09/2023 - 21:09
War News 24 / 7

EMERGENCY – Pashinyan hands over Nagorno-Karabakh to Azerbaijan: Fears of coup in Armenia – Protesters besiege government buildings

Rapid developments are taking place in the Caucasus, as protesters besiege government buildings in Yerevan demanding that Armenia's prime minister resign immediately.

Snipers were deployed outside government buildings and the presidential palace while police struggled to repel the enraged Armenians.

The reason is the passive attitude of Pashinyan, who ordered all military personnel of the Armenian Armed Forces not to open fire on Azerbaijani troops along the border.

This means that Pashinyan left Nargorno, Karabakh or Artsakh. The borders in the Caucasus are changing. The Azeris will retake the entire territory they lost in 1994.

Aliyev: "The operation will continue until the illegal Armenian formations raise the white flag"​

The Azerbaijani military continues its offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh while Armenian Prime Minister Pashinyan holds close telephone conversations with the head of the US State Department, Antony Blinken.

Azerbaijani troops are hitting military targets on the territory of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, which in fact found itself without military assistance from Yerevan.

Pashinyan directly stated that there will be no deployment of the Armenian army in Karabakh and that there are currently no units of the Armenian Armed Forces in Artsakh.

Azerbaijan has asked Armenian armed groups in Nagorno-Karabakh, which it described as "illegal", to surrender or continue its "anti-terrorist operation to the end", the state news agency reported, citing the presidency's administration.

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev stressed that the purpose of the operation (called anti-terrorism by Baku) is to restore Azerbaijan's constitutional order in Karabakh.

"The operation will continue until the illegal armed formations of the Armenians raise the white flag. We are ready for a meeting in Yevlakh (a city in Azerbaijan) with representatives of the Armenian population living in the Karabakh region of our country," Aliyev stressed.

Rage in Yerevan: "Nikol is a traitor"

Hundreds of protesters have already gathered in Yerevan's government square.
Armenians blame Pashinyan for what is happening now in Karabakh and demand that he protect the Armenians living in the region.

"Nicole is a traitor," protesters chant.

Meanwhile, Armenian Prime Minister Pashinyan denounced those calling for a "coup" in his country, following the military operations launched by Azerbaijan in the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave.

"We must not allow certain individuals, certain forces, to carry out a coup in Armenia.

There are already calls from various parties for a coup in Armenia," he said in his address to the nation.

Armenian television said hundreds of protesters had gathered outside the government headquarters in Yerevan.

Opposition parties called on their supporters to demonstrate at 18.00 (Greek time).

The opposition has tried several times over the past three years to topple Pashinyan, accusing him of being responsible for defeat in the brief war with Azerbaijan in autumn 2020. Then, the mass mobilizations that followed forced Pashinyan to call early elections.

Pashinyan himself became prime minister after the 2018 protests.

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Ο Πασινιάν παραδίδει το Ναγκόρνο Καραμπάχ στο Αζερμπαϊτζάν: Φόβοι για

Ραγδαίες είναι οι εξελίξεις στον Καύκασο, καθώς διαδηλωτές πολιορκούν τα κυβερνητικά κτίρια στο Ερεβάν ζητώντας από τον πρωθυπουργό της Αρμενίας, Ν.Πασινιάν, να παραιτηθεί άμεσα. O Πασινιάν κατηγορεί κύκλους εντός και εκτός χώρας ότι “επιδιώκουν πραξικόπημα”. Πριν λίγο αναπτύχθηκαν ελεύθεροι...
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Why new fighting in Azerbaijan's troubled region may herald a new war​

Azerbaijan’s launch of reportedly intense artillery firing in the Nagorno-Karabakh region has raised fears that another full-scale conflict with Armenia could be underway
By JIM HEINTZ Associated Press
September 19, 2023, 11:57 AM

FILE - In this Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2020 file photo, an ethnic Armenian soldier stands guard next to Nagorno-Karabakh's flag atop of the hill near Charektar in the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh at a new border with Kalbajar district turned over to Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan has announced an “anti-terrorist operation” targeting Armenian military positions. A statement from the Azerbaijan defense ministry said the operation began hours after four soldiers and two civilians died in landmine explosions in the Nagorno-Karabakh region. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits, File)

FILE - In this Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2020 file photo, an ethnic Armenian soldier stands guard next to Nagorno-Karabakh's flag atop of the hill near Charektar in the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh at a new border with Kalbajar district turned over to Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan has announced an “anti-terrorist operation” targeting Armenian military positions. A statement from the Azerbaijan defense ministry said the operation began hours after four soldiers and two civilians died in landmine explosions in the Nagorno-Karabakh region. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits, File)

TALLINN, Estonia -- Azerbaijan’s launch of reportedly intense artillery firing in the Nagorno-Karabakh region on Tuesday raised fears that another full-scale conflict with Armenia could be underway, less than three years after a war that killed more than 6,000 people.

Nagorno-Karabakh, with a population of about 120,000, is an ethnic Armenian region of Azerbaijan that has been a flashpoint since the collapse of the Soviet Union. The region and sizable surrounding territories came under the control of ethnic Armenian forces backed by the Armenian military at the 1994 end of a separatist war. Azerbaijan regained the territories and parts of Nagorno-Karabakh itself in fighting in 2020.

The latter war ended with an agreement to deploy Russian peacekeepers in the region, but tensions have soared since December when Azerbaijan began blocking the road that connects Nagorno-Karabakh with Armenia proper. The artillery firing that Azerbaijan calls an “anti-terrorist operation” started hours after it said four soldiers and two civilians were killed by landmines that it claimed were planted by Armenian saboteurs.

“It looks like it could be, unfortunately, terrible – war number three, something that people have been fearing but hoping to avoid with diplomacy in the last few weeks and months,” said Thomas de Waal, a regional specialist at the Carnegie Europe foundation.

Mountainous Nagorno-Karabakh, smaller than the U.S. state of Delaware, has significant cultural importance to both Armenians and Azeris. It had a substantial degree of autonomy within Azerbaijan when it was part of the Soviet Union. As the USSR deteriorated, Armenian separatist unrest broke out, later turning into a full-scale war after the Soviet Union collapsed.

Most of the Azeri population was driven out by the end of the fighting in 1994. Then amid the 2020 fighting, around 90,000 ethnic Armenians were displaced, some of them setting their homes ablaze before Azeris could resettle.

The Russian peacekeeping force was tasked with ensuring that the road leading to Armenia, called the Lachin Corridor, would remain open. But it has been mostly blocked since December as Azerbaijan alleged that Armenians were smuggling in weapons and conducting illicit resource extraction. That brought severe food shortages to Nagorno-Karabakh and Armenian allegations that Azerbaijan aimed for a genocide by starvation.

After months of dispute and negotiations, the International Committee of the Red Cross arranged a shipment of about 20 tons of flour into Nagorno-Karabakh this week from Armenia as well as medical supplies via a different road leading from Azerbaijan-held territory.

Nagorno-Karabakh officials had previously resisted aid coming by the latter road, saying it was a strategy for Azerbaijan to absorb the region.

Although the shipments suggested the crisis could be easing slowly, Azerbaijan’s report of military and civilian mine deaths on Tuesday escalated tensions and Azerbaijan then launched the artillery operation.

Armenia has repeatedly criticized Russian peacekeepers for failing to keep the Lachin Corridor open and for disregarding sporadic small clashes along the border.

Although Armenia is a longtime Moscow ally, including hosting a Russian military base, relations have deteriorated notably in the past year. Along with the road dispute, Armenia this year angered Russia by refusing to allow exercises on its territory by the Moscow-led Collective Treaty Security Organization bloc and by holding joint exercises this month with U.S. troops. In addition, Moscow was offended by Armenia providing humanitarian aid to Ukraine.

Russia’s involvement in ending the 2020 war was seen as a significant accomplishment that boosted its influence in the region. But its esteem has seriously eroded over the past year.

The acclaim it gained could be lost if it doesn’t take stronger measures to open up the road.

Russia doesn't appear eager to step into the new conflict. Commenting on Armenia’s demand for Russian peacekepeers to end the fighting, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said, “What about Yerevan’s recognizing Nagorno-Karabakh as part of Azerbaijan?”

And former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, resentful of Armenia’s distancing itself from Russia, said of Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, “Guess what fate awaits him.”

Pashinyan’s assenting to the Russia-brokered agreement to end the 2020 fighting was widely unpopular in Armenia, with opponents accusing him of being a traitor and large protests demanding his resignation.

The new hostilities will likely prompt a new wave of popular dismay. And Pashinyan is aware of the potential power of such protests, having become prime minister himself on the heels of large demonstrations in 2018.
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Tallinn-based AP writer Jim Heintz has covered Nagorno-Karabakh since 2001.

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Why new fighting in Azerbaijan's troubled region may herald a new war

Azerbaijan’s launch of reportedly intense artillery firing in the Nagorno-Karabakh region has raised fears that another full-scale conflict with Armenia could be underway
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ENDGAME for Armenia: Azerbaijanis advance into Nagorno-Karabakh – Defense lines broken – Telegraph of unconditional surrender to Armenians​

"Surrender and raise a white flag"​

19/09/2023 - 23:34
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Azerbaijanis pound Armenian positions: They entered Nagorno-Karabakh and seize territory – Fierce fighting in the Lachin Corridor

An ultimatum of unconditional surrender, which expires tomorrow morning, has been handed over by Azerbaijan to the authorities of Nagorno-Karabakh and to Armenia as the Azeri army advances.

The Nagorno-Karabakh contact line collapsed rapidly. Reports say the Azerbaijanis have invaded 15 km into Nagorno-Karabakh and are now shelling the capital Stepanakert.

The Azerbaijani Defense Ministry says it captured 60 Armenian positions.

Armenian forces abandoned six villages in Karabakh. These are:
– Pirliar (Khojaly) – Khanabad (Khojaly) – Nakhchivanly (Khojaly) – Agbulag (Khojaly) – Jutju (Khojavend) – Janyatag (Agdere)

According to Azerbaijan, "up to 20 military vehicles, more than 40 artillery installations, more than 30 mortars, 2 anti-aircraft systems and more than 6 electronic warfare stations were destroyed.

It is reported that as a result of a strike by the Armed Forces of Azerbaijan, the fuel depot of the Nagorno-Karabakh army was destroyed. The military depot was located near the Khankendi-Khojaly (Stepanakert-Ivanyan) road" (The only airport in Nagorno-Karabakh is in the village of Ivanyan).

Developments in Armenia are not good.

Armenian politician Andranik Tevanyan called on Armenians to go to Republic Square in central Yerevan to carry out a change of power (overthrow of Pashinyan).

Armenia's National Security Service warned of the risk of a mass uprising in the country.

Azerbaijan: Telegraph of unconditional surrender to Armenians​

Baku gave Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) forces a deadline to disband and disarm.
The ultimatum expires tomorrow morning.

If they do not comply, the Azerbaijani armed forces will launch a large-scale ground offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh to "completely liberate the territories of Azerbaijan," Azerbaijani sources said.

Azerbaijan has asked Armenian armed groups in Nagorno-Karabakh, which it described as "illegal", to surrender or continue its "anti-terrorist operation to the end", the state news agency reported, citing the presidency's administration.

At the same time, the presidency administration said that Azerbaijan is ready to meet with representatives of ethnic Armenians in Yevlah if they fulfill "a series of conditions".

"However, to stop the anti-terrorist operation, the illegal Armenian military formations must raise the white flag, surrender all weapons and dismantle the illegal regime," the presidential administration said, adding that "otherwise, the anti-terrorist operation will continue to the end."

Azerbaijan: Surrender – It's our territory!​

The Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry stressed that the only path to peace in the region is "the complete withdrawal of the Armenian army from Karabakh and the dissolution of the regime in Stepanakert, the capital of the region."
Azerbaijani authorities said the purpose of the Karabakh operation was to liquidate "units of the Armenian army that were illegally there."

Azerbaijan: Broke through Armenian defense lines in Karabakh​

Azerbaijani forces have broken through the defense lines of separatist Armenian forces in Nagorno-Karabakh and are determined to fulfill their strategic goals, Hikmet Hajiev, foreign policy adviser to Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, told Reuters.

Hajiev said Baku would be ready to talk to the ethnic Armenian authorities in Karabakh only after they raised a white flag and disarmed.

He added that Baku has no military targets in neighboring Armenia.

"Azerbaijani military forces operate exclusively in sovereign territories of Azerbaijan," he said, noting that Baku remains committed to the peace agenda despite the military operation launched today in the region.

"Azerbaijan's intention is to close a chapter of enmity and confrontation," he said.

"Enough is enough. We can no longer tolerate having such armed forces on the territory and also a system that, on a daily basis, challenges the security and sovereignty of Azerbaijan," he underlined.

He said Baku believed the "anti-terror operation," as it called the military operation launched in the enclave on Monday, would achieve its strategic goal of ensuring full sovereignty over Azerbaijani territory.

The Azerbaijani official also stressed that Baku notified Russia and Turkey "minutes before" the start of its operation.

The situation on the ground – 15 km the advance of the Azerbaijanis​


As expected, the air attack against the unrecognized Republic of Artsakh became the first stage of the "anti-terrorist" operation of the Azerbaijani Armed Forces. Air defense positions and concentration points were hit.

▪️According to the press service of the Artsakh Armed Forces, the operation of Azerbaijani troops across the front line began. If we look at the map, the most likely directions are Shusha, Fizuli and Aghdam.

▪️At the same time, the intensity of shelling of border areas has increased before the large-scale ground offensive of the Armed Forces of Azerbaijan. There are also reports of airstrikes on Martakert and its surroundings, suggesting the beginning of the use of aviation.

There are reports that Azerbaijani forces managed to advance 15 kilometers into Nagorno-Karabakh without resistance.

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Τελεσίγραφο άνευ όρων παράδοσης το οποίο λήγει αύριο το πρωί παρέδωσε το Αζερμπαϊτζάν στις αρχές του Ναγκόρνο Καραμπάχ και στην
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I've been following @301arm on twitter since this all started back in 2020 and it's looking like it's right back to where we were. This really makes me sad. I had a feeling this wouldn't last but I was always rooting for the armenians and it seems christians never get a break in this world.
 
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Starrkopf said:
I've been following @301arm on twitter since this all started back in 2020 and it's looking like it's right back to where we were. This really makes me sad. I had a feeling this wouldn't last but I was always rooting for the armenians and it seems christians never get a break in this world.
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Azerbaijan says it's halting offensive on disputed Armenian enclave Nagorno-Karabakh​

Ceasefire declared after ethnic Armenian authorities agreed to lay down arms.
By Patrick Reevell
ABC News
September 20, 2023, 8:57 AM

Outrage as Armenia concedes defeat in battle with Azerbaijan
ABC News’ Patrick Reevell reports on the century-old conflict over the contested region of Nagorno-Karabakh, with recent fighting leaving thousands dead, and countless ethnic Armenians displaced.

LONDON -- Azerbaijan has announced it is suspending its military offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh, after ethnic Armenian authorities in the disputed enclave agreed to lay down their arms in an apparent capitulation.

Nagorno-Karabakh's Armenian-led government on Wednesday morning said they had agreed to a ceasefire after Azerbaijani forces made major advances in the day-long offensive that has sparked warnings of humanitarian disaster and risks of large-scale ethnic cleansing.

In a statement, the enclave's ethnic Armenian authorities said under the agreement all Armenian military units would withdraw from the enclave and local forces would be disbanded and fully disarmed. It said a "complete cessation of hostilities" would begin from 1 p.m. Wednesday.

Azerbaijan's defense ministry said Armenian forces had agreed to "lay down their weapons, leave their combat positions and military posts and disarm completely. Units of the Armenian armed forces [will] leave the territories of Azerbaijan, illegal Armenian armed groups [will be] dissolved."

PHOTO: Armenian police officers guard the entrance to the government building during clashes with protesters calling on Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan to resign in central Yerevan on Sept. 19, 2023.

Armenian police officers guard the entrance to the government building during clashes with protesters calling on Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan to resign in central Yerevan on Sept. 19, 2023.
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Both sides said talks on issues around the "reintegration" of the enclave into Azerbaijan would be held on Thursday in the city of Yevlakh.

The agreement was brokered via the Russian peacekeeping contingent in Nagorno-Karabakh, which was established after the last major fighting there in 2020.

Armenia and Azerbaijan have fought over Nagorno-Karabakh for decades following the collapse of the Soviet Union. The enclave is internationally recognised as part of Azerbaijan, but has been controlled and largely inhabited by ethnic Armenians since a war in the 1990s following the collapse of the Soviet Union.

PHOTO: A protester reacts next to law enforcement officers during a gathering outside the government building following the launch of a military operation by Azerbaijani forces in the region of Nagorno-Karabakh, in Yerevan, Armenia, Sept. 20, 2023.

A protester reacts next to law enforcement officers during a gathering outside the government building following the launch of a military operation by Azerbaijani forces in the region of Nagorno-Karabakh, in Yerevan, Armenia, Sept. 20, 2023.
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Azerbaijan launched a major new offensive overnight on Monday, demanding the enclave's ethnic Armenian government dissolve itself and asserting that it would restore control over the territory.

Azerbaijani forces attacked along the frontline in Nagorno-Karabakh and began shelling the regional capital, called Stepanakert by Armenians. Over a hundred people were reported injured and several killed, according to local Armenian authorities. Thousands of people were reported to be sheltering in basements and video posted online by local media appeared to show hundreds of civilians seeking shelter at a Russian peacekeeper base.

PHOTO: A view shows damaged cars in front of a residential building following the launch of a military operation by Azerbaijani armed forces in the city of Stepanakert in Nagorno-Karabakh, a region inhabited by ethnic Armenians, Sept. 19, 2023.

A view shows damaged cars in front of a residential building following the launch of a military operation by Azerbaijani armed forces in the city of Stepanakert in Nagorno-Karabakh, a region inhabited by ethnic Armenians, Sept. 19, 2023.
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The ethnic Armenian government, which calls itself the Republic of Artsakh, wrote the decision to lay down arms was made after "enemy succeeded in penetrating into defense army outposts, capturing several heights and strategic road junctions."

"In the current situation, the international community's actions in the direction of ending the war and resolving the situation are insufficient. Taking this into consideration, the authorities of the Republic of Artsakh accept the proposal of the Russian peacekeeping contingent's command regarding a ceasefire," the Nagorno-Karabakh Presidential Office said.

The Azerbaijan offensive had sparked warnings tens of thousands of ethnic Armenians might be driven from their homes, raising the specter of large-scale ethnic cleasning in the enclave.

It was unclear what agreement would mean for the enclave's administration and the ethnic Armenians living there.

PHOTO: A view shows windows of a government building that were broken during a protest following the launch of a military operation by Azerbaijani forces in the region of Nagorno-Karabakh, in Yerevan, Armenia, Sept. 20, 2023.

A view shows windows of a government building that were broken during a protest following the launch of a military operation by Azerbaijani forces in the region of Nagorno-Karabakh, in Yerevan, Armenia, Sept. 20, 2023.
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The Karabakh Armenian government in its statement said the talks on Thursday would discuss "issues raised by the Azerbaijani side on reintegration" and "ensuring the rights and security of the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh….within the framework of the Constitution of Azerbaijan."

Before the ceasefire agreement, the United States, Russia, as well as France and the European Union had urged an immediate end to the Azerbaijan's military operation.

The apparent success of Azerbaijan's lightening offensive appeared to mark a historic turning point in the decades-old conflict, furthering a steep reversal in Armenia's control over the enclave that began in 2020. Backed by Turkey, Azerbaijan reopened the conflict in October 2020 with a short war, that ended with Armenia's defeat and a Russian-brokered peace agreement.

Since then Azerbaijan had tightened its grip around Nagorno-Karabakh, imposing a blockade for the last 9 months that has created shortages of food and medicine.

Since the 2020 war, Armenia's government under prime minister Nikol Pashinyan has distanced itself from the Karabakh government and abandoned Armenia's claim to the enclave. Pashinyan declined to declare war following the new Azerbaijani offensive and on Wednesday said Armenia had no involvement in Wednesday's ceasefire agreement.

PHOTO: Demonstrators clash with police at the Armenia government building to protest against Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2023, in Yerevan, Armenia.

Demonstrators clash with police at the Armenia government building to protest against Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2023, in Yerevan, Armenia.
Vahram Baghdasaryan/AP

Police in Armenia's capital Yerevan on Tuesday night clashed with hundreds of protesters outside state buildings, angry with what they saw as the government's failure to defend Karabakh.

Azerbaijan's offensive also appeared to underline Russia's weakened influence in the region, long considered its southern backyard, that has been accelerated by the war in the Ukraine. Azerbaijan is allied with Turkey, which publicly backed this week's offensive and has supported Azerbaijan previously with weapons and military advisors.

Russia is formally in a security pact with Armenia but besides deploying peacekeepers has not intervened on its behalf. Armenian politicians have expressed frustration with Moscow and suggested the country should seek closer ties with Western countries, including the United States, which this month held a small military training exercise in Armenia.

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