It has been an inflammable region like a powder keg for more than thirty years.
On August 3, Azerbaijan claimed to have taken control of several positions and destroyed Armenian targets in Nagorno-Karabakh, during an escalation that left at least three dead and rekindled the risk of a major war. .
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Located inside Azerbaijan and close to Armenia, Nagorno-Karabakh is a mountainous enclave, disputed by the two states of the South Caucasus.
Tossed about between armed conflicts, immediately flouted ceasefires and foreign interventions, the region is once again under fire.
This territory of 4400m2, mainly populated by Armenians, sharing the language, culture and religion of neighboring Armenia, is disputed by Azerbaijan, to which the enclave was entrusted in 1921 by Stalin.
Azeris, unlike Armenians, speak Azeri and are Shia Muslims.
Nagorno-Karabakh therefore finds itself jolted between two cultures, two…
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