⁍ Armenia and Azerbaijan accused each other on Monday of violating a new U.S.-brokered ceasefire in fighting over the mountain enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh.

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⁍ The latest fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh, a mountainous part of Azerbaijan populated and controlled by ethnic Armenians, erupted on Sept. 27.

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⁍ Hundreds have been killed and two Russian-brokered ceasefires have failed to hold.

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– The latest ceasefire in the Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan came into force at 8am local time on Sunday, but within minutes it had been violated by both sides. Azerbaijan’s defense ministry said Armenian forces had shelled villages in the Terter and Lachin regions, located at opposite ends of the conflict zone, reports Reuters. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan wrote on his Facebook page that the Armenian side “continued to adhere to the ceasefire.” The latest fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh, a mountainous part of Azerbaijan populated and controlled by ethnic Armenians, erupted on Sept. 27 and is the worst in the South Caucasus since the 1990s. Hundreds have been killed and two Russian-brokered ceasefires have failed to hold. World powers want to prevent a wider war that might draw in Turkey, which has voiced strong support for Azerbaijan, and Russia, which has a defense pact with Armenia. The conflict has also strained relations between Ankara and its NATO allies. The latest ceasefire was agreed on after separate talks in Washington between US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and the foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev said in a televised address that he wanted to resolve the conflict “by political and military means” and reiterated a demand that ethnic Armenian forces must agree to leave the region for fighting to stop. Armenians regard Nagorno-Karabakh as part of their historic homeland; Azeris consider it illegally occupied land that must be returned to their control. About 30,000 people were killed in a 1991-94 war over the enclave.