Azerbaijan Armenia fighting, Long-simmering tensions amid Armenia and Azerbaijan flared afresh Saturday, with at atomic 18 Armenian and 12 Azerbaijani troops dead in fighting, according to accompaniment media reports.
The abandon was centered in Nagorno-Karabakh, a arena active by Armenian armament but amidst and claimed by Azerbaijan. Breadth it belongs has been in altercation for years, admitting it's been almost attenuate of backward for this animosity to appear in bloodshed.
That's what happened Friday night and Saturday. An Azerbaijani Mi-24 helicopter accustomed out airstrikes on Armenian advancing positions was attempt down, and a abundance bang damaged a tank, according to Azerbaijan's official Azertac account agency.
The aforementioned address said that six Armenian tanks and 15 arms pieces were destroyed, while over "100 adversary soldiers were dead and injured."
The Armenpress account agency, citation President Serzh Sargsyan, said 18 troops were dead and 35 blood-soaked "because of the annoying accomplishments fabricated by the Azerbaijani armed armament forth the absolute breadth of acquaintance band with the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic."
The U.S. Accompaniment Department accursed "in the arch agreement the all-embracing armistice violations ... which accept resulted in a amount of appear casualties, including civilians."
"We appetite the abandon to appearance restraint, abstain added escalation, and carefully attach to the ceasefire," said the statement, advancement the two abandon to access into negotiations. "We reiterate that there is no advancing band-aid to the conflict."
Each canton abhorrent the added for the beginning hostilities.
Armenia said "the adversary" undertook "offensive actions," aggravating to "infiltrate abysmal into the arresting curve of the (Armenian army) and appropriate appropriate positions application tanks, arms and air force," according to a Defense Admiral statement.
The "enemy retreated" afterwards Armenian armament responded, with the Defense Admiral acquainted that "military operations are ongoing."
The Armenian advancing "strongly condemns the hostilities and the advancing and capricious decisions fabricated by the Azerbaijani authorities," the admiral said. "Azerbaijani authorities are to be captivated absolutely answerable for the aberrant accretion of tensions forth the Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijan acquaintance line."
The Azerbaijani government, by contrast, characterized the Armenian armament as the aggressor.
Hikmat Hajiyev, a Foreign Admiral spokesman, accused them of carefully and "intensively" battery "settlements abreast the foreground line, breadth civilians carefully live."
He said the Armenians "killed and afflicted several civilians," in accession to battlefront on Azerbaijani troops.
"As an advancing country, Armenia bears albatross (for) the accepted situation," Hajiyev said, the Azertac account bureau reported.
More than two decades ago, the two above Soviet republics fought a angry war over the Nagorno-Karabakh region.
Azerbaijan acquired academic ability from the above Soviet Union in 1991 afterwards initially declaring its civic ascendancy in 1988. Since then, it has been bound in a territorial altercation with indigenous Armenian separatists.
Ax murderer's absolution stirs fears of war
A six-year battle from 1988 to 1994 saw separatists, backed by troops from Armenia, and Azerbaijani armament action over the Nagorno-Karabakh and Nakhichevan regions in southwest Azerbaijan.
In 1994, a armistice was reached, but by then, the separatists, who are gluttonous abounding ability from Azerbaijan, had taken ascendancy of Nagorno-Karabakh and seven surrounding provinces.
There's been beneath abandon of late, admitting the breadth charcoal volatile.
The abandon was centered in Nagorno-Karabakh, a arena active by Armenian armament but amidst and claimed by Azerbaijan. Breadth it belongs has been in altercation for years, admitting it's been almost attenuate of backward for this animosity to appear in bloodshed.
That's what happened Friday night and Saturday. An Azerbaijani Mi-24 helicopter accustomed out airstrikes on Armenian advancing positions was attempt down, and a abundance bang damaged a tank, according to Azerbaijan's official Azertac account agency.
The aforementioned address said that six Armenian tanks and 15 arms pieces were destroyed, while over "100 adversary soldiers were dead and injured."
The Armenpress account agency, citation President Serzh Sargsyan, said 18 troops were dead and 35 blood-soaked "because of the annoying accomplishments fabricated by the Azerbaijani armed armament forth the absolute breadth of acquaintance band with the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic."
The U.S. Accompaniment Department accursed "in the arch agreement the all-embracing armistice violations ... which accept resulted in a amount of appear casualties, including civilians."
"We appetite the abandon to appearance restraint, abstain added escalation, and carefully attach to the ceasefire," said the statement, advancement the two abandon to access into negotiations. "We reiterate that there is no advancing band-aid to the conflict."
Each canton abhorrent the added for the beginning hostilities.
Armenia said "the adversary" undertook "offensive actions," aggravating to "infiltrate abysmal into the arresting curve of the (Armenian army) and appropriate appropriate positions application tanks, arms and air force," according to a Defense Admiral statement.
The "enemy retreated" afterwards Armenian armament responded, with the Defense Admiral acquainted that "military operations are ongoing."
The Armenian advancing "strongly condemns the hostilities and the advancing and capricious decisions fabricated by the Azerbaijani authorities," the admiral said. "Azerbaijani authorities are to be captivated absolutely answerable for the aberrant accretion of tensions forth the Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijan acquaintance line."
The Azerbaijani government, by contrast, characterized the Armenian armament as the aggressor.
Hikmat Hajiyev, a Foreign Admiral spokesman, accused them of carefully and "intensively" battery "settlements abreast the foreground line, breadth civilians carefully live."
He said the Armenians "killed and afflicted several civilians," in accession to battlefront on Azerbaijani troops.
"As an advancing country, Armenia bears albatross (for) the accepted situation," Hajiyev said, the Azertac account bureau reported.
More than two decades ago, the two above Soviet republics fought a angry war over the Nagorno-Karabakh region.
Azerbaijan acquired academic ability from the above Soviet Union in 1991 afterwards initially declaring its civic ascendancy in 1988. Since then, it has been bound in a territorial altercation with indigenous Armenian separatists.
Ax murderer's absolution stirs fears of war
A six-year battle from 1988 to 1994 saw separatists, backed by troops from Armenia, and Azerbaijani armament action over the Nagorno-Karabakh and Nakhichevan regions in southwest Azerbaijan.
In 1994, a armistice was reached, but by then, the separatists, who are gluttonous abounding ability from Azerbaijan, had taken ascendancy of Nagorno-Karabakh and seven surrounding provinces.
There's been beneath abandon of late, admitting the breadth charcoal volatile.
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