Key-Points<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\nArmenia and Nagorno-Karabakh, a breakaway region that is inside Azerbaijan but is run by ethnic Armenians, declared martial law and mobilised their male populations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Armenia said Azerbaijan had carried out an air and artillery attack on Nagorno-Karabakh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is a decades-old conflict between majority Christian Armenia and mainly Muslim Azerbaijan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nagorno-Karabakh broke away from Azerbaijan in a conflict that broke out as the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Though a ceasefire was agreed in 1994, after thousands of people were killed and many more displaced, Azerbaijan and Armenia frequently accuse each other of attacks around Nagorno-Karabakh and along the separate Azeri-Armenian frontier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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