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The United Nations will send a mission to Nagorno-Karabakh this weekend, a UN spokesman said after Azerbaijan invited UN agencies to visit the region to monitor the situation there as an exodus of ethnic Armenians continued on September 29.
Over half the estimated population of 120,000 ethnic Armenians living in Nagorno-Karabakh has fled to Armenia, according to Yerevan officials. Armenian volunteers are doing what they can to provide relief to the displaced people who have flooded into the country.
Thousands more people poured into Armenia from Nagorno-Karabakh overnight -- an exodus prompted by a lightning Azerbaijani offensive that gave Baku total control over the ethnic-Armenian populated breakaway region amid growing fears of a major humanitarian crisis.
Thousands of ethnic Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh have flooded into the border town of Goris after enduring an arduous journey out of the the crisis-hit region. RFE/RL spoke with refugees in Armenia who said they left everything behind and hadn't eaten in days.
The number of confirmed deaths following an explosion at a fuel depot in Nagorno-Karabakh is 68, according to the breakaway region's ombudsman, Gegham Stepanian.
The U.S. State Department says it will work with allies and partners on an international monitoring mission after nearly half the population of Nagorno-Karabakh fled following an offensive by Azerbaijan that gave Baku complete control of the breakaway region.
A newborn baby was among more than an estimated 13,000 ethnic Armenian refugees who have now fled from Nagorno-Karabakh into Armenia. RFE/RL spoke with the mother of 2-week-old Avetis, who spent his first days of life in a basement shelter in the city of Martekert, known as Agdere in Azeri.
A powerful explosion on September 25 is feared to have resulted in mass casualties at a fuel warehouse near the Stepanakert-Askeran Highway in the mostly ethnic-Armenian breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Almost 5,000 people from Nagorno-Karabakh had crossed into Armenia as of midday on September 25, according to the Armenian government as it rushed to accommodate the influx of refugees. Azerbaijan reclaimed control over Nagorno-Karabakh after launching an assault on September 19.
Opposition supporters protested at several locations in the Armenian capital, Yerevan, on September 25. Apart from a larger march, smaller groups of demonstrators blocked traffic and urged the public to join the protests organized by opposition parties.
Thousands of ethnic Armenians fleeing Nagorno-Karabakh are clogging roads leading to Armenia, where unrest over a bruising defeat to Azerbaijan in the breakaway region last week is growing, with dozens of protesters detained in the capital, Yerevan.
An adviser to the breakaway leadership in Nagorno-Karabakh thrashed by a lightning Azerbaijani offensive this week says virtually all of the territory's ethnic Armenians will leave for Armenia in a bitter exodus from "our historic lands."
Armenian activists without political affiliations marched on September 23 in the streets of the capital, Yerevan, urging solidarity with ethnic Armenians in the breakaway Azerbaijani region of Nagorno-Karabakh. Days ago, Baku launched a military offensive against the Karabakh Armenian separatists.
Nagorno-Karabakh‘s ethnic Armenian separatist leaders on September 23 said they are implementing the terms of a cease-fire agreement made three days earlier with Azerbaijani officials, including evacuations of injured civilians to Armenia.
Hundreds of demonstrators called for the embattled Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian to be ousted for what they call inadequate government support for ethnic Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh, an Azerbaijani territory that has a large ethnic Armenian population.
Students continued to protest in the Armenian capital, Yerevan, following Azerbaijan's military assault on ethnic-Armenian inhabited areas of Nagorno-Karabakh on September 19. Hundreds of protesters gathered outside government buildings, calling for Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian to resign.
More than 80 people have been detained as anti-government protests continued in the Armenian capital on September 22.
Tensions remained high in central Yerevan on September 21 as government opponents gathered to protest against what they say was inadequate support for ethnic Armenians in the breakaway Azerbaijani region of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Thousands of ethnic Armenians gathered at Nagorno-Karabakh's only airport where Russian peacekeepers are based. They were seeking protection and possible transit to Armenia following two days of fighting in the disputed territory and the apparent surrender of separatist forces.
Ethnic Armenians describe panic and sounds of gunfire in the de facto capital of Nagorno-Karabakh, Stepanakert, amid a tense cease-fire and talks between separatist leaders and Azerbaijan. The breakaway region's leaders surrendered following an attack on September 19 by Azerbaijan's military.
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