Azerbaijan launches operation against Nagorno-Karabakh and demands surrender

Azerbaijan has launched “anti-terror” operations in Nagorno-Karabakh, and said it will not stop until ethnic-Armenian separatists surrender.

Tensions in the South Caucasus have been high for months around the breakaway enclave, recognised internationally as part of Azerbaijan.

Azerbaijan and Armenia last went to war three years ago.

Baku ordered “illegal Armenian military formations” to hand over arms and dissolve their “illegal regime”.