and within days all 120,000 ethnic Armenians fled their ancestral homeland, most becoming refugees in neighboring Armenia.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said he has "deep concern for the ethnic Armenian population in Nagorno-Karabakh," adding that Azerbaijan should "protect civilians and uphold its ...

The first Karabakh war in the 1990s resulted in the expulsion of hundreds of thousands of ethnic Azeris. Then, in 2020, Azerbaijan - backed by Turkey - regained control of big swathes of the lost ...

on the alleged 'ethnic cleansing' of Armenian residents from the Karabakh region of Azerbaijan," the statement said. As the ministry pointed out, the Armenian Prime Minister "not only backtracks ...