Fears of a Second War in Europe as Azerbaijan Launches Military Attack

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Azerbaijan carried out strikes on the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region on Tuesday as it announced the launch of an “anti-terror” operation, a move that threatens to trigger another war in the region.

The country’s Defense Ministry said it was using “high-precision weapons” to “incapacitate” Armenian-backed forces and target Armenian military positions in a push to force out “formations of Armenia’s armed forces.”

Footage purportedly filmed in Stepanakert, the capital of Karabakh, which is called Khankendi by Azerbaijan, captured the sounds of loud shelling and artillery fire.

“At this moment, the capital Stepanakert and other cities and villages are under intensive fire,” an Armenia-based separatist group warned on social media, calling it a “large-scale military offensive.”

Officials in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, said civilians were free to leave the area via humanitarian corridors and insisted that “the civilian population and civilian infrastructure are not targets.”

Azerbaijan and Armenia have feuded for decades over Karabakh, which is internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan but has a predominantly ethnic Armenian population.

A bloody 2020 war between the two former Soviet rivals ended with Azerbaijan recapturing land of historical significance to Armenians. A Russian-brokered ceasefire deal to end that war did little to ease tensions in the region, with the two sides continuing to hurl allegations and periodic reports of shelling.

Armenia has said it does not have any armed forces in Karabakh, and on Tuesday said the “situation on the borders of the Republic of #Armenia is relatively stable.”

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2 Comments

Irish-7 September 19, 2023 at 13:13

The media will report the rivalry and tensions as rooted in national or ethnic disagreements. Personally, I suspect RELIGION is real issue between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Armenia is Christian, Azerbaijan is Moslem. Leftist control of our information systems rarely mentions the GENOCIDE of Armenian Christians at the hands of Moslem Turks during the First World War. The actual demographics of the region, where the ethnic divides rest, are NOT the same as the national borders. The Kurds are a great example of this, residing in both Northern Iraq and Southern Turkey. I cannot help but think that Azerbaijan attacking Armenians is motivated by Islamic hatred for Christianity.
Irish-7 September 19, 2023 at 13:19

I thought these 2 nations were in Asia? No biggie…..!