Armenia, Azerbaijan Accuse Each Other Of Breaking Latest Cease-Fire Within Minutes

Movsumov Qowkar, 32, checks his neighbor’s home damaged by shelling in the city of Terter early on Sunday.

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Fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region took another turn on Sunday, with the two countries accusing each other of violating the latest cease-fire just minutes after it took effect.

The tiny region in the South Caucasus has been the site of hundreds of military and civilian deaths, significant property destruction and inflamed tensions since violence broke out between the two countries in late September, intensifying a decades-long conflict.

Nagorno-Karabakh is internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan but governed by ethnic Armenians as a de facto independent state.