Azerbaijan Launches New Attack on Armenians in Disputed Territory
- Azerbaijan says operation is ‘restoring constitutional order’
- Escalation is most serious since thousands died in 2020 war
People walk past a poster showing maps of the towns of Nagorno-Karabak, in Baku, Azerbaijan, on Sept., 13.
Photographer: Tofik Babayev/AFP/Getty Images
Azerbaijan began a military operation to take control of the Nagorno-Karabakh region, prompting international condemnation of the most serious escalation since a war with neighboring Armenia that killed thousands three years ago.
The Azerbaijani army on Tuesday started a “local anti-terrorist operation” aimed at destroying Armenian military positions in the disputed territory and “restoring the constitutional order,” the Defense Ministry in Baku said on its website. Russian peacekeeping troops who are in Nagorno-Karabakh following the 2020 war have been notified of the action, the ministry said.