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Added on the 23/09/2023 18:08:06 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
Smoke billows above breakway Nagorno-Karabakh's main city, as Azerbaijani forces shell Stepanakert according to Armenian officials as fighting enters a second week. IMAGES
Images filmed from a car driving on the road as journalists enter to the city of Khankendi, known as Stepanakert in Armenian, at the same time as Azerbaijani officials. The AFP team is reporting from the former breakaway region on a government press tour. IMAGES
Images show the road into the main city of the Nagorno-Karabakh region, known as Stepanakert in Armenian and Khankendi in Azeri. Footage shot from a vehicle by an AFP team, taking part in a press tour organised by Azerbaijan, shows vehicles and civilian buildings along the road into the city. Almost the entire ethnic Armenian population of Nagorno-Karabakh has fled since Baku recaptured the breakaway enclave. IMAGES
Dozens of protesters, including 10 prominent opposition figures were arrested for their role in violent unrest that erupted after the government signed a peace deal with Azerbaijan that ceded swathes of territory. IMAGES
The buzzing of a drone rings out across Stepanakert, the capital of the contested Nagorno-Karabakh region, followed by an explosion atop a mountain on the city's outskirts. IMAGES