Heavy fighting over Karabakh after main city shelled

Armenian and Azerbaijani forces were engaged in fierce clashes Saturday as fighting over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region intensified after its main city came under heavy shelling. The leader of the breakaway province said he was heading to the front and that the "final battle" for the region had begun, seven days after new fighting erupted in the decades-old dispute. Armenia's defence ministry said Karabakh's separatist forces had repelled a "massive attack" by Azerbaijan in one area of the frontline and had launched a counter-offensive. "Heavy fighting is ongoing on other flanks," defence ministry spokeswoman Shushan Stepanyan said. Azerbaijan's defence ministry said its forces had...