Azerbaijan President Demands Total Armenian Retreat From Nagorno Karabakh Raising Fears Of Ethnic Cleansing
The two sides have been in conflict over the pocket—internationally recognized Azeri land but governed by the ethnic Armenian, self-declared Republic of Artsakh—for decades, but this week’s violence is the most serious since a bout of fighting 2016. Both sides have deployed heavy artillery, tanks and drones, and more than 100 people—including civilians—have been killed so far. International calls for calm have fallen on deaf ears. Azeri President Ilham Aliyev said Wednesday: “We only have one condition: Armenian armed forces must unconditionally, fully, and immediately leave our lands....