Nagorno-Karabakh is a mountainous region internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan. Roughly 120,000 ethnic Armenians were living there out of the population of a little over 140,000.

WASHINGTON—A hearing of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) spotlighted Azerbaijan’s campaign of ...

Calling the displacement from Nagorno-Karabakh an example of “ethnic cleansing ... its name to the Western Azerbaijan Community (WAC), whose website displays a map that includes the territory ...

UNITED NATIONS — Azerbaijan regained control of its breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh in a deadly two-day military offensive and held initial talks with representatives of its ethnic Armenian ...

This map shows the areas in the two countries ... may draw in surrounding countries. Turkey backs its ethnic Turkic kin in Azerbaijan, and closed borders with Armenia after the conflict in the ...

Ethnic Armenian men from Nagorno-Karabakh get on a bus to Armenia's Goris, in Lissagorsk village, Azerbaijan, Sunday, Oct. 1, 2023. The last bus carrying ethnic Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh left ...

The ex-Soviet republic of Azberbaijan says it has reestablished control over the breakaway ethnic Armenian enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh. The former Soviet Republic of Azerbaijan says it has now ...

and within days all 120,000 ethnic Armenians fled their ancestral homeland, most becoming refugees in neighboring Armenia.

Nagorno-Karabakh came under control of ethnic Armenian forces backed by the Armenian military in separatist fighting that ended in 1994. Azerbaijan took parts of the area in a 2020 war.

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