Reuter In Khanlar AZERI refugees fleeing the war zone are pouring into this settlement in northern Azerbaijan, ragged, starving and frozen after a hazardous trek across snowbound mountains. They arrive at a rate of up to 900 a day after a 50-mile journey through a wilderness in the lower Caucasus. They are fleeing an Armenian offensive […]

Jonathan Steele in Moscow DEFYING a United Nations security council call to withdraw from occupied territory, Armenian forces yesterday seized another Azerbaijani town and pushed on towards the frontier of Iran. Their onslaught will cut off a huge swath of Azeri land and prompt another refugee exodus if they go all the way to the border. […]

By Stephane Bentura, Aghdam, Azerbaijan Stiffened by death and cold, the mutilated corpses of Azeris mown down as they fled an Armenian offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh clung to the snow-covered hillside yesterday almost one week after the attack. Journalists flown in by army helicopter from Agdam just east of the disputed enclave within Azerbaijan counted 31 […]

The blood feud between Armenians and Azerbaijanis claims 200 civilians By Jill Smolowe. Reported by Yuri Zarakhovich/Moscow While the details are disputed, this much is plain: something grim and unconscionable happened in the Azerbaijani town of Khojaly two weeks ago. So far, some 200 dead Azerbaijanis, many of them mutilated, have been transported out of […]

The extension to the ceasefire with the Armenians in Nagorny Karabakh undermines Azerbaijan’s chances of recovering control over the regionwrites Hugh Pope in Baku THE longest ceasefire yet in the Nagorny Karabakh conflict has been extended indefinitely, Azerbaijan’s chief negotiator with Armenia said yesterday, raising hopes that the killing may be at an end in […]

Two Azerbaijani women hold the portrait of a soldier killed in Nagorno-Karabakh, at his funeral in Kazakh. Thousands of Azeris are believed to have died in this winter’s offensive. Publication date 03/07/1994 Courtesy of Karabagh Truths platform

Azerbaijani women mounting relatives killed by Armenian shelling in the border village of Tatly. A surge of fighting has threatened a ceasefire between the two republics at war over the enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh. According to Armenian reports, at least 60 Azerbaijani and two Armenian fighters have been killed since Sunday’s abortive Azerbaijani offensive. Yesterday peace […]

David Hasret in Baku and Jonathan Rugman in Ankara AFTER two weeks of intense fighting, Armenian forces yesterday broke through Azeri lines, opening up a land corridor into the disputed enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh and capturing the strategic town of Lachin. As the first convoy of relief supplies set off from Yerevan, the Armenian capital, to Stepanakert, […]