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Karabakh Conflict Takes a Dangerous Turn
Publication: Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 18 Issue: 79
(Source: Public Radio of Armenia)
In mid-May 2021, the Karabakh conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan began to take on a dangerous new dimension. In contrast to the last 25 years when fighting between the two countries mainly took place on territory internationally recognized as Azerbaijan’s (with a notable exception last summer see EDM, July 14, 2020) now, there is a real danger that clashes could erupt on both sides of the state border and bring to a bloody end the unsteady ceasefire. In the intense fighting last autumn (September 27–November 9, 2020), Baku succeeded in eliminating the buffer zone Yerevan had established around Karabakh, and today Azerbaijan has forces arrayed along nearly the entire length of the shared border, directly opposite Armenian units. This situation is particularly fraught because this geopolitically important boundary has not been delimited and dema