Armenia Vs Azerbaijan Start War
Armenia and Azerbaijan engaged in fighting for the second time in a day on Sunday, killing at least 16 people on both sides, including an Azerbaijani general. Armenia and Azerbaijan, two of the world's most populous countries, are embroiled in deadly fighting that erupted Sunday between their forces.
Heavy fighting broke out in the region, which is located in Azerbaijan and is home to ethnic Armenian troops backed by Armenia since 1994 after the end of a separatist war. The violence comes after a war that has erupted since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the collapse of Nagorno-Karabakh in 1991. After the collapse of the Soviet Union and independence, the conflict developed into a civil war between Armenia and Azerbaijan over control of a land area between the two countries.
The war between Armenia and Azerbaijan broke out when the Soviet Union began to fall apart in the late 1980s, with a number of territories between the two nations changing hands several times.
A Russian-brokered ceasefire between Armenia and Azerbaijan was signed in May 1994, but the conflict continued, with both sides inciting ceasefire violations and violence. Armenian-Azerbaijani clashes broke out in April 1995, killing 12 Azerbaijani and four Armenian soldiers. Since the 1994 ceasefire agreement, Azerbaijan and Armenia have repeatedly accused each other of violating ceasefires in Nagorno-Karabakh and other parts of Azerbaijan.
After the killings, Armenia and Azerbaijan engaged in a verbal exchange of blows, accusing each other of instigating the latest conflict. Both accuse each other of firing directly at each other's territory, and both have rejected pressure for peace talks and threaten to descend into war.
Russia, which maintains a military base in Armenia, called for an immediate ceasefire, but Turkey declared its support for Azerbaijan and backed it. Russia is also friendly to Azerbaijan, and although it is also a member of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), Russia has also supported Azerbaijan in the past, calling for immediate ceasefires.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, whose country has been mediating for more than a decade, spoke out against his counterpart in predominantly Muslim Azerbaijan, urging both sides to immediately end the ceasefire and hold talks. Azerbaijan and Turkey must respect the aspirations of the Armenian people of Nagorno-Karabakh, respect their borders and immediately de-escalate the conflict, "Senator Markey said.
If the conflict is not resolved in the next three or four years, Armenia will have to demand that Nagorno-Karabakh merge with Armenia. The conflict has the potential to involve neighboring Iran, which shares cultural and religious ties with Azerbaijan and has traditionally been close to Armenia, but Russia prefers diplomacy. If there is a conflict between Russia and Turkey over control of the Azerbaijani border, intervention by Russia or Turkey to avert the defeat of its ally could lead to total war between Moscow and Ankara. Russia's treaty with Armenians could drag it into war with Azerbaijan if Azerbaijan or Turkey's troops move from Armenia to Armenia itself, or Russia could be dragged into its own war with Turkey if Azerbaijan's military advances into the region.
Armenia and Azerbaijan, which have already mobilised more troops and imposed martial law in the region, accuse each other of starting the fighting. . Azerbaijan has launched military action on the border with Armenia to show the international community that the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is not only a political issue, but also a military one.
Both countries - is calling for a cease-fire. Armenia accused Armenia of shooting down its fighter jets on Tuesday and earlier this week accused Turkey of sending mercenaries to the ethnically Armenian region in support of Azerbaijan's armed forces. Baku claims that the attack was the result of Armenian shelling of civilian facilities in Azerbaijan, not an act of military aggression, but it is an attempt to breach Armenia's line of defense, test it, and actually recapture Karabakh from Armenian hands. Turkey has already become increasingly involved in the conflict, with Armenia accusing Turkey earlier this week of sending "mercenaries" to support Azerbaijani forces against the "ethnic Armenian" region, the Foreign Ministry said.
Ankara appears to view the Armenian-Azerbaijan conflict as an opportunity to pursue its growing foreign-policy ambitions by appealing to Russia, the world's second-largest economy and a key ally of Turkey. Moscow has said it is in constant contact with Turkey, Armenia and Azerbaijan, and that any attempt to provide military support to opposing sides would only add fuel to the fire.



























