Nagorno-Karabakh region News

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan's 20-year-old son is also preparing to volunteer his country in the fight against Azerbaijan.  

Meanwhile, both Azerbaijan and Armenia accused each other of killing civilians by shelling cities in and around the Nagorno-Karabakh region in an escalation of a month-long conflict over the mountain enclave that has defied three ceasefires.

Fighting between Azerbaijan and ethnic Armenian forces continued for a sixth day in the heaviest clashes since the 1990s around the enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, with both sides claiming to have inflicted significant damage on the other.

Clashes have broken between Armenia and Azerbaijan in past few days over Nagorno Karabakh region leaving several dead and fears of spillover in the region.

The overall death toll rose to 67 including nine civilian deaths -- seven in Azerbaijan and two on the Armenian side, Al Jazeera reported. Azerbaijan has not reported any military casualties, but Armenian separatist officials released footage showing burnt-out armoured vehicles and the bloodied and charred remains of soldiers in camouflage it said were Azerbaijani troops. As the clashes continued for Monday, UN chief Antonio Guterres spoke to the leaders of Azerbaijan and Armenia.

India has good ties with both Armenia and Azerbaijan. The North-South international transport corridor goes from Mumbai to Chabahar via Azerbaijan to Moscow, something crucial for India's connectivity plans. Infact, in 2018, the then Indian External affairs minister Sushma Swaraj had visited fire time in Baku. Nagorno-Karabakh is internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan but has ethnic Armenian a majority. Global reactions have been pouring in and threatens to draw Moscow which backs Armenia and Turkey that back Azerbaijan into the conflict.