What is happening? Early on Sunday, 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 disputed region called Nagorno-Karabakh. Azerbaijan said it attacked only in response to Armenian shelling. Nagorno-Karabakh is recognised internationally as Azerbaijan’s territory, but has a mostly Armenian population who have resisted Azerbaijani rule for more than a century. In 1991, the region declared independence, and since then it has ruled itself – with Armenian support – as the unrecognised Republic of Artsakh. Map Despite signs in the past two years of possible...
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