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Fighting continues in Nagorno-Karabakh: Azeri defence ministry

  • 29 Sep 2020
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A still image shows members of Azeri armed forces firing artillery in an unidentified location.

Fighting has continued overnight between Azerbaijan and its ethnic Armenian mountain enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, the Azeri defence ministry said on Tuesday, in the fiercest round of the decades-old conflict in more than a quarter of a century.

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The ministry said in a statement that the opposing forces attempted to recover lost ground by launching counterattacks in the directions of Fuzuli, Cebrayil, Agdere and Terter.

Reuters

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