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Added on the 26/09/2023 19:00:17 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
Images show aid workers and refugees in the Armenian city of Goris as people continue to arrive from the Nagorno-Karabakh region. On Thursday, Yerevan reported that more than 65,000 people have fled the enclave, representing more than half of its ethnic Armenian population. IMAGES
Buildings are destroyed in the self-proclaimed capital of Nagorno-Karabakh, Stepanakert, after days of shelling. Half of the population of the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region have been displaced since fierce fighting erupted between Armenian separatists and Azerbaijan, rebel officials said. IMAGES
Dozens of Armenians, army reservists and volunteers between the ages of 20 and 50, board buses headed towards the border with Nagorno-Karabakh. They plan to join separatists soldiers on the frontline in Karabakh, an ethnic Armenian enclave that broke away from Azerbaijan in the 1990s, where fierce fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan is escalating. 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
Families of ethnic Armenians carrying their belongings in bags arrive in the Armenian city of Goris and receive food and water at a refugee centre after they left the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh, days after Azerbaijan launched an offensive. IMAGES