As fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan continues, the conflict appears to be centered on Nagorno-Karabakh, but the strikes involved are increasingly beyond that region, with Azerbaijan claiming sevearal of their own cities have been attacked by Armenia.
Artillery reportedly hit the major cities of Ganja and Mingachevir, each some 100 km away from the enclave the two sides are supposed to be fighting over. Armenia specifically denied the Minhachevir attacks, which happened late night Sunday.
Adding to the risk of Turkey getting involved, officials issued a statement condemning the attack on Ganja and reiterating that it backs the UN borders, in which Nagorno-Karabakh is under Azeri control.
Within Nagorno-Karabakh, the casualties are said to be overwhelmingly combatants, while the strikes elsewhere are leading to reports of civilian casualties. The strikes outside the conflict zone risk turning the fight more regional than it already is.
The whole of Azerbaijan is the conflict zone. The aggressor does NOT determine the limitation, and there is a lesson in that for a big power.
That will make Armenia the conflict zone, also.
Just like Israel.
This is the first time I’ve read that Armenia – not Karabakh, in self-defense – has struck any targets. What are your impartial, independent sources? Azerbaijan has a population of 10 million and Turkey of 82 million, with major military assistance from Israel; Nagorno-Karabakh has 145,000 people. Nice of Antiwar.com to be so “evenhanded.”
armenia has chosen its own fate by forsaking their alliance with Russia, believing amerikans would support them…I suspect Artashk will lose 1/3 of its terrain, perhaps more