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Bursts of explosions are seen on November 5, 2020 during fighting between Armenian-Karabakhi and Azerbaijani forces near Shushi (Shusha), a strategic hilltop town about a half-hour's drive from Karabakh's main town, Stepanakert (Khankendi).
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Before the arrival of Azerbaijani troops, a man drives a car past a building reportedly damaged from shelling of the Karabakhi town of Shushi (Shusha) in late October 2020. Badly damaged buildings from the first Karabakh war in the early 1990s can still be found throughout the town.
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A November 9, 2020 YouTube video from the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry shows an Azerbaijani flag on the Armenian-English signboard for the town of Shushi (Shusha).
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Unidentified servicemen head toward Armenia on November 8, 2020, the day Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev announced that Azerbaijani forces had retaken control of Shusha (Shushi in Armenian). Although Armenian President Nikol Pashinian maintains that fighting continues there, Karabakh's de facto government has conceded that it has lost control of the town.
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Azerbaijan has pledged that it will investigate the shelling of Shushi's (Shusha's) Holy Savior Cathedral, the town's main Armenian Apostolic church. Baku rejects media claims that religion plays any role in the latest round of fighting over Karabakh, but local residents who see the cathedral as a symbol of Karabakh are not reassured.
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An armed man walks along a street in Shushi (Shusha) a few days before de facto Nagorno-Karabakh leader Arayik Harutiunian announced on October 29, 2020 that Azerbaijani forces were 5 kilometers away from the town.
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A car drives past the remains of a rocket shell near Shushi (Shusha) in late October 2020. Until 2017, the twisty, two-lane mountain road running from Karabakh's main town, Stepanakert, through Shushi was the only way for local residents to reach Armenia.
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Street celebrations broke out across Baku, the Azerbaijani capital, on November 8, 2020 after President Ilham Aliyev announced that Azerbaijan's army had retaken Shusha (Shushi). Azerbaijan lost control of the town more than 28 years ago, in May 1992.
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NAGORNO-KARABAKH -- The fortress walls surrounding the historical center of Susa (Shushi)
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NAGORNO-KARABAKH -- Military volunteers walk on a forest road in the Shushi (Susa) region, October 31, 2020
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NAGORNO-KARABAKH -- An aerial view of the town of Shushi (Susa), partially destroyed during fighting between Karabakh and Azerbaijan forces in the 1990s, in the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh, October 29, 2009
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NAGORNO-KARABAKH -- Rescuers carry the body of a victim following what is said to be recent shelling in the city of Stepanakert during a military conflict over the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh, November 6, 2020
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In Yerevan, refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh sell herb-stuffed flatbreads, a regional specialty, to raise money to send back home. The number of Karabakhi refugees now in Armenia remains unclear.
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NAGORNO-KARABAKH -- A policeman walks past blood stained stretchers in the yard of the local morgue in Stepanakert, the main city of the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh, November 6, 2020
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Nagorno Karabakh -- a destroyed tank in the city of Jabrayil
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Azerbaijan -- A local resident visits a consumer goods market
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AZERBAIJAN -- Local resident Elsever Pashayev stands in his house that was allegedly damaged by recent shelling during the fighting over the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh, in the city of Tartar, November 2, 2020
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NAGORNO-KARABAKH -- Men make a coffin at a furniture workshop, which totally switched its business to casket production amid the ongoing military conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh, in the breakaway regi
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AZERBAIJAN -- Mourners carry a coffin during the funeral of 7-year-old Aysu Isgandarova, who according to relatives and local media was killed by recent shelling in the course of a military conflict over the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh, in the vi
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NAGORNO KARABAKH -- An Azeri soldier hangs the flag of Azerbaijan in the city of Jabrayil, where Azeri forces regained control during the fighting with Armenia over the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh on October 16, 2020.
