It is high time that Armenia take such a decision which would be an appropriate response to the Azeri/Turkish attack on Artsakh. Share in WhatsApp. The Armenian Ministry of Defense said in a statement that “Azerbaijani forces struck military equipment inside Armenian territory, just because it assumed that this equipment might bomb Azerbaijani cities.” The Ministry of Defense warned that “Armenian forces reserve the … Armenia’s attacks against the civilian settlements and critical infrastructure of Azerbaijan threaten to cause a humanitarian catastrophe, writes Hikmet Hajiyev. Oct. 4, 2020. Share in Twitter. Print article. In the city of Ganja on 17 October, 21 civilians were killed and more than 50 injured when a SCUD-B ballistic missile hit the Mukhtar Hajiyev neighbourhood. Armenia said on Saturday it would use "all necessary means" to protect ethnic Armenians from attack by Azerbaijan, and its prime minster compared the struggle with a … A four-day escalation in April 2016 became the deadliest ceasefire violation to date until the recent attack of Armenia to Tovuz district of Azerbaijan on 12 th of July, 2020. Azerbaijan’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Monday that Azeri forces downed a Russian helicopter near its border with Armenia by accident, expressing apologies to Moscow and readiness to pay compensation. Armenia, … A report from Syrians for Justice and Truth (SJT) did claim that about 150 fighters from Syrian jihadi groups made up of people from the Caucasus were sent to Azerbaijan in July, the same month that serious clashes broke out between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Rivals use official social media accounts to ramp up rhetoric and deny claims of attacks, but can either be believed? The cease-fire came into effect Saturday, but was immediately challenged by mutual claims of violations that persisted since then. Nagorno-Karabakh is internationally recognised as part of Azerbaijan but is populated and controlled by ethnic Armenians. Because of their power, more than 100 countries have banned cluster munitions, though Armenia and Azerbaijan have not. Ganja was first hit by a missile on 4 October. This is crime, terrorism. Relations between the two former Soviet republics have been tense since 1991 when the Armenian military occupied Upper Karabakh, or Nagorno-Karabakh, an internationally recognized territory of Azerbaijan. Armenia and Azerbaijan on Monday accused each other of attacks over the separatist territory of Nagorno-Karabakh despite a cease-fire deal brokered by Russia to try to end the worst outbreak of hostilities in the region in decades. The increased violence brings the two former Soviet republics a step closer to outright war after eight days of clashes, and threatens to draw the regional powers Turkey, Russia and Iran into a battle for influence in the sensitive south Caucasus. According to the Republic of Armenia Ministry of Defense, Azerbaijan’s … Attacks First attack. VIdeo from the Azerbaijan Defense Ministry purporting to show an attack on an Armenian position. Amnesty Internationalstated that both Azerbaijani and Armenian forces committed war crimes during recent fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh, and called on Azerbaijani and Armenian authorities to immediately conduct independent, impartial investigations, identify all those res… "Indiscriminate Missile attacks are launched against Ganja, Füzuli, Tartar and Jabrayil cities of Azerbaijan from territory of Armenia. The result left Nagorno-Karabakh, closely aligned with Armenia, vulnerable to attack by Azerbaijan, which vowed to recapture the area. Armenian or allied Nagorno-Karabakh forces repeatedly fired widely banned cluster munitions in attacks on populated areas in Azerbaijan during … “There is nothing special about this,” Pashinyan said. Harutyunyan also warned that “military facilities in Azerbaijan’s big cities” would now be considered as legitimate targets. Armenia has accused neighboring Azerbaijan of carrying out air and artillery attacks on Nagorno-Karabakh, a disputed territory recognized as part of Azerbaijan but controlled by ethnic Armenians. Attacks by Armenian forces Amnesty International documented eight strikes carried out by Armenian forces on towns and villages in Azerbaijan which killed a total of 72 civilians. The Guardian has reported that 1,000 Syrian fighters working for private Turkish security firms have deployed to Karabakh to support Azerbaijan’s armed forces, which has been denied by both Ankara and Baku. Armenia also warned about security risks in the South Caucasus in July after Azerbaijan threatened to attack Armenia’s nuclear power plant as possible retaliation. Find your bookmarks in … Armenian forces on Wednesday (4/5) launched a large scale assault on the Northern part of the Agdam region of Azerbaijan. Amnesty documented eight strikes carried out by Armenian forces on towns and villages in Azerbaijan that killed a total of 72 civilians. Everyone should be convinced that peace in the region depends on Azerbaijan,” said Oruj. Casualties from the past week’s fighting have run into the hundreds, although precise figures are impossible to obtain. Sunday 23 October 2011 05:12. comments. Azerbaijan attacks deal with Armenia. At least one civilian was killed and four more injured in the attack on Sunday on Azerbaijan’s second largest city, 100km (60 miles) north of the Karabakh capital, Stepanakert. Nagorno-Karabakh is now the third theatre in which Moscow and Ankara are engaged in a volatile power struggle, after Syria and Libya. The fighting has also been characterised by accusations from both sides of foreign involvement in the escalating violence. This massive amount of funding has enabled Azerbaijan to free up other resources to attack Nagorno Karabakh and Armenia, as we have seen … Oct. 4, 2020. Yerevan also accused Azerbaijani forces of deadly new strikes on civilian areas of Karabakh, as both sides claim the other is targeting civilians after weeks of fierce frontline clashes. The cease-fire came into effect Saturday, but was immediately challenged by mutual claims of violations that persisted since then. Azerbaijan has accused Armenia of using cluster munitions in two days of attacks, killing at least 25 people and wounding dozens in Barda, eastern Azerbaijan, near Nagorno-Karabakh. Unfortunately, Azerbaijani sniper attacks on Armenia's Tavush region are an ongoing occurrence, leading to multiple casualties and injuries of both Armenian civilians and military personnel. Azerbaijani presidential aide Hikmet Hajiyev said Armenian forces fired cluster Smerch missiles against Barda, accusing them of using cluster munitions “to inflict excessive casualties among civilians”. It is yet another provocation of Armenia since Tovuz incident. It claimed its neighbour Azerbaijan had launched a … Karabakh's rights ombudsman Artak Beglaryan said there were "heavy casualties" in the attacks. Late on Sunday, Hajiyev said the industrial city of Mingachevir had also been attacked. Third attempt at halting fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh has collapsed, with shelling reported by both sides. Several killed and dozens wounded in attack on eastern Azerbaijan, as clash over Nagorno-Karabakh intensifies. Pro-Azerbaijan protesters in Istanbul, Turkey, on 4 October. Azerbaijan’s Prosecutor General’s Office said Friday that at least 47 civilians were killed and 222 injured because of new Armenian attacks. Armenia … “Russian border guards have been on Armenia’s border with Turkey and Iran … Now, due to the latest developments, the Russian border guards are also on the southeastern and southwestern border of Armenia.”. About 30,000 people were killed in a 1991-1994 war in the region. A Russian Mi-24 helicopter was downed over Armenia near the border with Azerbaijan from a man-portable air-defense system, killing two and injuring one, the Russian Defense Ministry reported. Get short URL. Iran, which has a sizeble Azeri population and shares borders with both Armenia and Azerbaijan, has denied reports it is providing Armenia with arms and military equipment and has officially called on both countries to deescalate. Send in e-mail Send in e-mail. A four-day escalation in April 2016 became the deadliest ceasefire violation to date until the recent attack of Armenia to Tovuz district of Azerbaijan on 12 th of July, 2020. Armenia and the de-facto authorities in … Attacks by Armenian forces . The Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, declared: “For there to be a solution, the [Armenian] occupiers must withdraw from these lands.”. At least one civilian was killed and four more injured in the attack on Sunday on Azerbaijan’s second largest city, 100km (60 miles) north of the Karabakh capital, Stepanakert. He was young. 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Azerbaijan accused Armenia of the attack, which it denied. “I call on the residents of these cities to immediately leave,” he said. “My father passed away years ago, and Fuad was the man of our family. After the first shelling, he went out to see what happened. Armenian Defense Ministry spokeswoman Shushan Stepanian said Azerbaijani forces were “intensively shelling the southern front" of the conflict zone on … Azerbaijan has accused Armenia of using cluster munitions in two days of attacks, killing at least 25 people and wounding dozens in Barda, eastern Azerbaijan, near Nagorno-Karabakh. “After the the things l witnessed today, I don’t know how we will continue our normal lives, it is so hard after all of this. Remnants of the weapons used in the attack [Seymur Kazimov/Al Jazeera]According to a list seen by Al Jazeera, victims ranged in age from 30 to 80. Early on Sunday 27 September, Armenia announced it was declaring martial law, mobilising its army and ordering civilians to shelter. Azerbaijan underlined that the ceasefire was temporary and emphasized that it would not renege on its goal to retake control of the region. Armenia’s defence ministry, meanwhile, confirmed that Azerbaijan had seized the strategic town of Gubadli between Nagorno-Karabakh and the Iranian border, an military gain that could make a diplomatic solution more difficult. Tahir Taghizadeh, the Azerbaijani ambassdor to the UK, told the Guardian that Turkey’s support for Azerbaijan was “solely limited to military training and putting diplomatic pressure on Armenia”. Ganja is the second biggest city of Azerbaijan. US silence on Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict reflects international disengagement, 'Defend our nation': Armenian diaspora feels pull of another war. Barda-based activist Ulviyya Babasoy said decried the targeting of civilians. Armenia has denied carrying out the attacks on Tuesday, when four people were killed, and Wednesday, when 21 died. By Alexandra Hudson . Earlier this week Armenia also accused a Turkish air force F-16 jet of shooting down an Armenian warplane, but did not release any material evidence. At least one person killed in Ganja incident, as former Soviet republics move closer to war, First published on Sun 4 Oct 2020 16.26 BST. “I saw dead bodies, injured people, everything was ruined,” she told Al Jazeera. UN Secretary-General António Guterres stated that "indiscriminate attacks on populated areas anywhere, including in Stepanakert, Ganja and other localities in and around the immediate Nagorno-Karabakh zone of conflict, were totally unacceptable". KIM Kardashian has called for international efforts to keep the peace as a border conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan killed more than 50 people in two days. Article bookmarked. “The F-16s have been there as a deterrent against any Armenian attacks on civilian populations and military installations within Azerbaijan,” one of the sources said. Azerbaijan’s drone-led assault seems to have scored a decisive victory over Armenian forces in the disputed enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, with a … Azerbaijan and Armenia accused each other of targeting civilians in a sharp escalation of the fighting in the South Caucasus that broke out one week ago. The previous Armenian government had also declared that if Azerbaijan attacks Artsakh, Armenia would then recognize Artsakh’s independence. Azerbaijan and Armenia have been locked in a bitter conflict over Karabakh since Armenian separatists backed by Yerevan seized control of the mountainous province in a 1990s war that left 30,000 people dead. Armenia has declared martial law and mobilised all men of fighting age after it accused Azerbaijan of unprovoked strikes on Sunday morning. Armenia's new attack against Azerbaijan is an act of aggression and use of force. Fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh dramatically escalated early September 27, 2020. While the conflict between Armenian and Azerbaijan has centuries-old roots, a bitter war between the two over Nagorno-Karabakh was triggered by the collapse of the Soviet Union. Armenia immediately denied carrying out the attack, the second in two days that Azerbaijan says killed civilians in the Barda district close to the frontline. Share in Facebook . Additional reporting by Seymur Kazimov from Barda district. l believe that civilians should not be targeted in war. Meanwhile, Yerevan also accused Azerbaijani forces of deadly new attacks on civilian areas of Nagorno-Karabakh. Calls from Russia, the US, France and the EU for a ceasefire have so far been ignored and the violence appears to be worsening. Armenia's forces have so far launched intensive missile attacks against Azerbaijan’s second-largest city of Ganja, which is more than 60 kilometers away from the conflict zone, the central Azerbaijani city of Mingachevir, which hosts the country's largest hydroelectric power and water reservoir, as well as Barda, Tartar and Beylagan. Share in Facebook. The Armenian foreign ministry said three civilians were injured in a fire resulting from Azerbaijan’s attacks. Azerbaijani attacks were accompanied by cruelties, beheadings: Armenia’s ombudsman addresses OSCE forum. The Nagorno-Karabakh’s defence ministry has recorded 1,119 military deaths since fighting erupted on September 27. BEIRUT, LEBANON (11:00 A.M.) – Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said on Sunday that Russia will intervene to ensure the security of Armenia in the event that Azerbaijan attempts to launch any attack on the Syunik border region. Sevinj Mikayilova was making her nine-year-old child breakfast when: ‘Suddenly we heard the bomb.’ [Seymur Kazimov/Al Jazeera]Wednesday’s attack came despite a US-brokered truce agreed at the weekend, the third ceasefire attempt in a row to collapse just minutes after it took effect. FILE PHOTO: An ethnic Armenian soldier fires an artillery piece during a military conflict over the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh, in this handout picture released October 5, 2020. A ceasefire in 1994 left Armenia in full control of the area and surrounding enclaves, which are internationally recognised as Azerbajiani territory. He said “Nagorno-Karabakh is our land” and that Armenian forces “must leave our territories, not in words but in deeds”, provide a timetable for a full withdrawal, and recognise the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan. Ankara and Baku have conducted large-scale joint military drills since clashes in July that killed 17 people in a different border region. Armenia, meanwhile, said that Stepanakert, which has been under shelling since Friday, was hit again on Sunday. Share in Twitter. The attack on Wednesday hit a densely populated area and a shopping district. In a fiery televised address to the nation, Azerbaijani president Ilham Aliyev set conditions for a halt to the fighting that would be near impossible for Armenia to accept. Baku says Yerevan is being aided by fighters from the Kurdistan Workers’ party (PKK) militant group based in Syria and Iraq, but has also not produced any proof. On Sunday morning, Azerbaijani artillery, rockets, drones and combat aircraft began a series of attacks on Armenian positions in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region, just … Azerbaijan used its drone fleet — purchased from Israel and Turkey — to stalk and destroy Armenia’s weapons systems in Nagorno-Karabakh, shattering its defenses and enabling a swift advance. Azerbaijan is widely considered to have the superior firepower, using a fleet of drones to target Armenian forces with deadly accuracy and also launching rocket attacks against two … Azerbaijan rejects any solution that would leave Armenians in control of the enclave, which it considers to be illegally occupied. Azerbaijan’s drone-led assault seems to have scored a decisive victory over Armenian forces in the disputed enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, with a … Armenia's defence ministry said Azeri forces had launched an attack five minutes after the truce had been due to come into effect, with ethnic Armenian forces responding. The Armenian leader of Nagorno-Karabakh, Arayik Harutyunyan, however, confirmed on Facebook that his forces had targeted a military airbase in Ganja, but later stopped firing in order to avoid civilian casualties. Azerbaijan’s defence ministry says its army units were attacked by “an illegal Armenian armed group” in Nagorno-Karabakh, killing one Azerbaijani serviceman and wounding another. Escalation draws former Soviet republics closer to outright war. Ria Novosti news agency reported that Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan confirmed the deployment of Russian border guards along the Armenian border with Nagorno-Karabakh. Ganja is the second biggest city of Azerbaijan. Relatives of attack victims mourn after the attack on Barda on Wednesday [Arif Hüdaverdi Yaman/Anadolu Agency]“It seems like they (Armenia) are intent on creating a picture of war that shows Azerbaijan suffering, inside Azerbaijan’s borders, rather than in the battlefields. Azerbaijan and Armenia have agreed to a new ceasefire beginning at midnight Sunday local time. Open gallery view. Both Armenia & Azerbaijan deliberately launched ‘indiscriminate attacks’ on civilians during Nagorno-Karabakh war - Amnesty report 14 Jan, 2021 15:12 . Send in e-mail Send in e-mail. That fighting proved to be a prelude for the bigger war that began in September. The Take explores the depths of conflict in the Nagorno-Karabakh region. On 17 October, in the city of Ganja 21 civilians were killed and more than 50 injured when a SCUD-B ballistic missile hit the Mukhtar Hajiyev neighbourhood. A series of clashes on the Armenia-Azerbaijan border has resulted in the deaths of three Azerbaijani soldiers in the heaviest fighting between the two sides in years. … Barda MP Zahid Oruj told Al Jazeera that Armenia was attempting to “create scenes similar to Syria and Libya, with people’s blood shed in the streets”. His aide Hikmet Hajiyev said there had also been civilian casualties in another Azeri region, Beylagan, which borders Nagorno-Karabakh, and that his country would not hesitate to retaliate against Armenian shelling of Azerbaijani population centres. Armenia denied it had directed fire “of any kind” towards Azerbaijan. Internationally recognised as part of Azerbaijan, but majority of population is ethnic Armenian An estimated one million people displaced by 1990s war, and about 30,000 killed Heavy fighting has erupted in the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh. VIdeo from the Azerbaijan Defense Ministry purporting to show an attack on an Armenian position. Lala Ismayilova, an English-language teacher in Barda, lost her 31-year-old brother Fuad Ismayilov, on Wednesday. “On November 9, at about 17:30 Moscow time, a Russian Mi-24 helicopter came under fire from the ground from a man-portable air-defense system when accompanying a vehicle convoy of the 102nd … The International Committee of the Red Cross on Sunday condemned the reports of “indiscriminate shelling and other alleged unlawful attacks using explosive weaponry in cities, towns and other populated areas”. On July 12th and 13th, Azerbaijani forces attacked Armenia’s northern province of Tavush on multiple occasions, with 4 Azerbaijani soldiers killed and 7 Azerbaijani and Armenian soldiers wounded. Tensions between the two neighbours over the last 30 years have traditionally been mediated by Russia, which has a military alliance with Armenia but also maintains close links with Baku’s ruling elite and sells arms to both sides. Latest uptick comes as Turkey’s involvement in the region stretches from Syria to the Caucasus and the Mediterranean. Stop it, Armenia.”. Turkey, which has strong cultural and economic ties to Azerbaijan, is widely viewed to have stoked the fresh hostilities by declaring its staunch support for Azerbaijan when the fighting broke out last week. A truce between Azerbaijan and Armenia is threatening to fall apart after renewed clashes overnight. Fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh has escalated dramatically after Baku accused Armenian forces of firing rockets at Ganja, which lies outside the contested territory. The bodies of at least 50 Syrian combatants were repatriated to the last rebel-held corner of the country on Saturday, with some funerals held for the dead men the same day, several Syrian families said. Turkey has facilitated the deployment of up to 16,000 Syrian mercenaries to Libya’s battlefields so far this year. Azerbaijan Says Armenia Attacks City, Threatens Retaliation . Russia has estimated as many as 5,000 deaths in total. YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — Armenia and Azerbaijan on Monday accused each other of attacks over the separatist territory of Nagorno-Karabakh despite a cease-fire deal brokered by Russia to try to end the worst outbreak of hostilities in the region in decades. Wednesday’s strike marked the deadliest reported attack on civilians in a month of fighting over Nagorno-Karabakh. Zen Read. YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — Armenia and Azerbaijan on Monday accused each other of attacks over the separatist territory of Nagorno-Karabakh despite a cease-fire deal brokered by Russia to try to end the worst outbreak of hostilities in the region in decades. The region has long attracted western concern because it is a major oil and gas pipeline corridor to world markets. There were reports of dead and wounded civilians in both the capital and the historic town of Susha, with Armenia’s foreign ministry accusing Azerbaijani forces of “the deliberate targeting of the civilian population”. Armenia regards the territory as part of its historic homeland and says the population there needs its protection. Armenia and Azerbaijan have accused each other of attacks over the separatist territory of Nagorno-Karabakh despite a ceasefire deal brokered by Russia. Azerbaijan has not disclosed its military casualties. “The second rocket landed when he went outside. Since the conflict restarted on September 27, each side has claimed the other is targeting civilians, and both regularly deny the claims. Reuters. On September 27, Azerbaijan began air and ground attacks across Nagorno-Karabakh, an escalation in the conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia and the … “They [the Caucasian jihadist fighters] were taken … A series of clashes on the Armenia-Azerbaijan border has resulted in the deaths of three Azerbaijani soldiers in the heaviest fighting between the two sides in years. How can I live without my brother?”.
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