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The First Nagorno-Karabakh War, also known as the Artsakh Liberation War in Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh, was an armed conflict that took place in the late 1980s to May 1994, in the enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh in southwestern Azerbaijan, between the majority ethnic Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh backed by the Republic of Armenia, and the ...
Sep 28, 2023 · What led to the latest fighting? Fears of fresh violence rose when Azerbaijan mounted an effective blockade of a vital route into the enclave in December 2022. The Lachin Corridor is the only...
Mar 20, 2024 · Learn about the conflict over the border region claimed by both Armenia and Azerbaijan and see the latest developments on CFR’s Global Conflict Tracker.
Sep 16, 2023 · The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict has been the longest-running in post-Soviet Eurasia. In 1988, ethnic Armenians living in Nagorno-Karabakh demanded the transfer of what was then the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast (NKAO) from Soviet Azerbaijan to Armenia.
Sep 19, 2023 · Amid the collapse of the USSR from 1988 to 1994, Armenian and Azerbaijani forces fought a grueling series of battles over the region, with the Armenians taking control of swathes of land and forcing the mass exodus of hundreds of thousands of ethnic Azerbaijanis, razing several cities to the ground.
Jan 18, 2024 · The conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh has many interconnected and overlapping components. Arguably the most consequential of them are the Armenian and Azerbaijani discourses about the issue, often framed in nationalist terms.
Sep 22, 2023 · Nagorno-Karabakh, a contested mountainous region located in the South Caucasus, has been the epicenter of two large-scale conflicts and intermittent clashes between Armenia and Azerbaijan for well over three decades.
Sep 27, 2023 · After decades of wars and tense stalemates, almost no one saw it coming: Azerbaijan seized Nagorno-Karabakh from Armenian control seemingly overnight.
Apr 24, 2023 · What is Nagorno-Karabakh and why are tensions rising again? Claimed by both Azerbaijan and Armenia after the fall of the Russian Empire in 1917, the region has remained a point of tension ever...
Nov 10, 2020 · Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia have signed an agreement to end military conflict over the disputed enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh.
