⁍ Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh declared martial law and mobilised their male populations.

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⁍ Both sides, which fought a war in the 1990s, reported fatalities.

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⁍ The clashes prompted a flurry of diplomacy to prevent a new flare-up of a decades-old conflict.

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– Heavy fighting erupted Sunday between Azerbaijan and Armenia over Nagorno-Karabakh, a region inside Azerbaijan that is run by ethnic Armenians, the AP reports. According to Reuters, Nagorno-Karabakh denied a report that 10 of its military were killed. Armenia said Azeri forces had attacked civilian targets including Nagorno-Karabakh’s capital, Stepanakert. “We stay strong next to our army to protect our motherland from Azeri invasion,” Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan tweeted. Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh, which broke away from Azerbaijan in the 1990s, reported fatalities. Both sides, which fought a war in the 1990s, reported fatalities. Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh, a breakaway region that is inside Azerbaijan but is run by ethnic Armenians, declared martial law and mobilized their male populations. Armenia said Azerbaijan had carried out an air and artillery attack on Nagorno-Karabakh. Azerbaijan said it had responded to Armenian shelling and that it had seized control of up to seven villages, but Nagorno-Karabakh denied this. The clashes prompted a flurry of diplomacy to prevent a new flare-up of a decades-old conflict between majority Christian Armenia and mainly Muslim Azerbaijan, with Russia calling for an immediate ceasefire and Pope Francis leading calls for talks. Pipelines shipping Caspian oil and natural gas from Azerbaijan to the world pass close to Nagorno-Karabakh.