Announcement

Collapse
No announcement yet.

Three People Killed In Azerbaijan-Armenia Clashes

Collapse
X
 
  • Filter
  • Time
  • Show
Clear All
new posts

  • Three People Killed In Azerbaijan-Armenia Clashes

    THREE PEOPLE KILLED IN AZERBAIJAN-ARMENIA CLASHES

    Press TV, Iran
    Feb 6 2015

    Fri Feb 6, 2015 6:9PM

    At least three people have been killed in clashes between Azeri and
    Armenian forces in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region.

    The Armenian Defense Ministry spokesman, Artsrun Hovannisian, said
    on Friday that an Armenian was killed during Azeri forces' shelling
    of villages along the Karabakh border.

    The second victim, a 25-year-old Armenian soldier, was killed by the
    Azerbaijani fire in a separate incident along the Karabakh front line,
    the Armenian Defense Ministry said in a statement.

    Separately, an Azerbaijani soldier lost his life in a shootout with
    Armenian forces on Thursday.

    Multiple confrontations between Baku and Yerevan over the disputed
    mountainous region of Nagorno-Karabakh left tens of troops dead from
    both sides last year.

    The two ex-Soviet Caucasus nations claim the territory of
    Nagorno-Karabakh, which is located in Azerbaijan but largely populated
    by Armenians.

    Ethnic Armenian forces took control of the enclave, which accounts
    for 16 percent of Azerbaijan territory, in the early 1990s during
    a six-year war that took place from February 1988 to May 1994. The
    conflict left an estimated 30,000 people dead and one million displaced
    before the two sides agreed to a ceasefire in 1994. A permanent peace
    accord has never been inked and the dispute still remains unsettled.

    Azerbaijan has threatened to take back the region by force if
    negotiations between the two sides fail to yield results.

    IA/KA/SS

    http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/02/06/396462/3-killed-in-Azerbaijan-Armenia-clashes

Working...
X