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30 Years of Unsolved Conflict

2020-09-27 Azerbaijan has launched artillery and drone attacks towards civilian targets in Stepanakert, leaving at least two casualties, one woman and one child.

2020-07-16 Azerbaijan's president Ilham Aliyev has dismissed foreign minister Elmar Mammadyarov who had the post since 2004. Aliyev has accused Mammadyarov for having conducted "meaningless" negotiations with the Armenian side. Sources mention that Mammadyarov has since the turn of the year advised against any military operations and instead to continue the diplomatic negotiations.

2020-07-15 New hostilities have flared up in Caucasus, this time directly on the border between Armenian and Azerbaijan. At least 16 people have been killed, 12 Azerbaijanis and 4 Armenians.

2018-02-13 The Karabakh movement can be said to have officially started when people in Stepanakert staged the first demonstrations on February 13, 1988, calling for the reunification of the Nagorno-Karabakh Oblast with Armenian SSR.

The Karabakh Conflict is Harldy Frozen Anymore

2016-04-02 The reported clashes with several causulties on both sides are the worst since the killings on the front escalated during the summer of 2015. The latest clashes came a day after the US Foreign Minister John Kerry, during a meeting with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, emphasized the significance of a ultimate peaceful solution to the conflict. The statement was made after Aliyev had openly accused the OSCE Minsk Group of religious discrimination.

Azerbaijan had World's Most Increased Military Spending During 2011

2012-04-18 According to the latest report from Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), "Azerbaijan made the largest real percentage increase (89 per cent) in military spending in the world in 2011, amidst increasing warnings of renewed conflict with Armenia over the disputed Ngorno-Karabakh region." Armenia is on 11th place (about 10% increase), just behind Sweden.


How did the conflict start? What happened in Khojaly?

Where is Karabakh? What are then Nagorno-Karabakh or Artsakh? When and how did the conflict start and what happened in Khojaly? The questions are many and the issue is rather complicated, but there are quite a lot of information which explains many of these questions. We have collected some of these in Background & Facts. The idea is to give a brief, but correct introduction with accurate sources which can serve as basis for further and more detailed study of the subject.



Maps

We have collected more than 30 maps for different time periods, from Ancient times to the present, which shows the region and Karabakh's geographical location and affiliation over the past two thousand years.

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Video


A film about the Karabakh Conflict, with Thomas de Waal, Institute of War and Peace reporting (på engelska).