ALJAZEERA: <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Armenia and Azerbaijan have reported new border clashes that left an unknown number of Azerbaijani troops dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The fighting, which broke out early on Tuesday, marks the latest flare-up between the arch foes, who fought a war in 2020 over the contested Nagorno-Karabakh region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Each side blamed the other for the fighting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In a statement, Armenia\u2019s defence ministry said Azerbaijan launched \u201cintensive shelling\u201d against Armenian military positions in the direction of the cities of Goris, Sok, and Jermuk at 00:05am (20:05 GMT) on Tuesday. Azerbaijani troops used drones, as well as \u201cartillery and large-calibre firearms,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cArmenia\u2019s armed forces have launched a proportionate response,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But Azerbaijan\u2019s defence ministry accused Armenia of \u201clarge-scale subversive acts\u201d near the districts of Dashkesan, Kelbajar and Lachin on the border, adding that its army positions \u201ccame under fire, including from trench mortars\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
ALJAZEERA: Armenia and Azerbaijan have reported new border clashes that left an unknown number of Azerbaijani troops dead. The fighting, which broke out early on Tuesday, marks the latest flare-up between the arch foes, who fought a war in 2020 over the contested Nagorno-Karabakh region. Each side blamed the other for the fighting. In a statement, Armenia\u2019s defence ministry said Azerbaijan launched \u201cintensive shelling\u201d against Armenian military positions in the direction of the cities of Goris, Sok, and Jermuk at 00:05am (20:05 GMT) on Tuesday. Azerbaijani troops used drones, as well as \u201cartillery and large-calibre firearms,\u201d it said. \u201cArmenia\u2019s armed… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27132,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27133,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27131\/revisions\/27133"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}