At least three people have been killed in clashes between Azeri and Armenian forces in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region.<\/p>\n
The Armenian Defense Ministry spokesman, Artsrun Hovannisian, said on Friday that an Armenian was killed during Azeri forces’ shelling of villages along the Karabakh border.<\/p>\n
The second victim, a 25-year-old Armenian soldier, was killed by the Azerbaijani fire in a separate incident along the Karabakh front line, the Armenian Defense Ministry said in a statement.<\/p>\n
Separately, an Azerbaijani soldier lost his life in a shootout with Armenian forces on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Multiple confrontations between Baku and Yerevan over the disputed mountainous region of Nagorno-Karabakh left tens of troops dead from both sides last year.<\/p>\n
The two ex-Soviet Caucasus nations claim the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, which is located in Azerbaijan but largely populated by Armenians.<\/p>\n
Ethnic Armenian forces took control of the enclave, which accounts for 16 percent of Azerbaijan territory, in the early 1990s during a six-year war that took place from February 1988 to May 1994. The conflict left an estimated 30,000 people dead and one million displaced before the two sides agreed to a ceasefire in 1994. A permanent peace accord has never been inked and the dispute still remains unsettled.<\/p>\n
Azerbaijan has threatened to take back the region by force if negotiations between the two sides fail to yield results.<\/p>\n
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