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Seen in this video screen grab is smoke rising in the vicinity of Stepanakert on September 19, 2023. On 19 September 2023, Azerbaijan's Defence Ministry announced that Azerbaijan is beginning to take local “counter-terrorist measures” in Nagorno-Karabakh (also known as Artsakh) to restore constitutional order. Internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan, most of the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh is governed by the unrecognised Republic of Artsakh. Since the mid-1990s, Armenia and Azerbaijan have been holding peace talks on the region's disputed status. On 17 May 2023, at the 4th Council of Europe summit in Reykjavik, Armenia's prime minister Pashinyan said in a statement that “Armenia recognizes Azerbaijan's territory of 86,6 thousand square kilometers and Azerbaijan recognizes the territory of Armenia of 29,8 thousand square kilometers”. In August 2023, a group of UN experts expressed alarm over Azerbaijan's blockade of the Lachin Corridor linking Nagorno-Karabakh to Armenia, which resulted in a humanitarian crisis in Nagorno-Karabakh. (Photo by oldhike/TASS)
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