Source: The New York Times
Tens of Thousands Fleeing as Armenians Gain in Fight Over Disputed Region Special to The New York Times IMISHLI, Azerbaijan — On a 90-mile stretch of highway in southwestern Azerbaijan, tens of thousands of people are on the move, fleeing as the war with Armenians over the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh spills ever deeper into […]
Source: Los Angeles Times
In Azerbaijan, Civilians Pay Price of War By SONNI EFRON TIMES STAFF WRITER ZANGELAN, Azerbaijan —It looks as if war had come to California. This besieged corner of southwestern Azerbaijan is a lovely land of tawny rolling hills and irrigated valleys thick with orchards and vineyards. Pomegranates grow by the side of the road, and […]
Source: Правда
Трагедия Ходжалы Глава исполнительной власти города Эльман Мамедов потерял за несколько часов 22 своих родственника, в том числе и мать. Осажденный Ходжалы подвёргся вначале массированному артиллерийскому обстрелу, рассказывает он. По городу со всех четырёх сторон велся беспрерывный огонь ракетами «Алазань», орудиями танков, БТРов и БМП. После многочасовой истребительной артподготовки, когда все вокруг лежало в руинах […]
Source: The Times
Anatol Lieven has a hilltop view of a savage but sometimes comic battle between Azerbaijani and Armenian forces in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh Our position was an artillery spotter’s dream. From the top of the hill on which we were crouching, just west of the Azerbaijani village of Shelli and on the border of the […]
Source: Los Angeles Times
Caucasus: Tens of thousands have fled across a perilous river into Iran, aid workers and refugees say. By ALEXIS ROWELL SPECIAL TO THE TIMES IMISHLI, Azerbaijan—Armenian troops pushing deeper into Azerbaijan have burned a string of villages and captured a major town in recent days, forcing tens of thousands of people across the treacherous Araks […]
Source: Los Angeles Times
Regional war threatens to expand MOSCOW — An estimated 80,000 to 100.000 Azerbaijanis, forced to flee their homes by a massive Armenian offensive In southwestern Azerbaijan, are heading toward the Iranian border as the ethnic war In Nagorno-Karabakh widens into a full-scale international conflict. Up to 2.000 Azerbaijani refugees already have crossed into Iran, and […]
Source: Los Angeles Times
Enclave Horror Echoed in a Cameraman’s Sobs Karabakh: Film is shown in Moscow as Azerbaijanis and Armenians again trade charges over Khojaly attack. By Carey Goldberg, Times staff writer MOSCOW — As the camera panned from sere winter weeds to the frozen corpse of a small child in a red snowsuit, then to a cluster […]
Source: The Guardian
Eyewitness | Jonathan Steele in Baku THEY STOOD in small groups under the trees outside the headquarters of the Popular Front, perhaps 300 people in all, anxiously waiting to know if Shusha’s fall was really true. “It is the heart of Karabakh. It’s all our history, the birthplace of our best poets,” explained Makhir Guseinov, an […]
