Article 58MTA Why are Armenia and Azerbaijan fighting and what are the implications?

Why are Armenia and Azerbaijan fighting and what are the implications?

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Michael Safi
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Tensions over Nagorno-Karabakh region have caused one of Europe's frozen conflicts' to erupt

Early on Sunday 27 September, Armenia announced it was declaring martial law, mobilising its army and ordering civilians to shelter. It claimed its neighbour Azerbaijan had launched a military operation inside a breakaway region called Nagorno-Karabakh. Azerbaijan said it attacked only in response to Armenian shelling.

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