Azerbaijani forces enter last district handed over by Armenia

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Azerbaijani forces on Tuesday moved into the final district given up by Armenia in a peace deal that ended weeks of fighting over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region. Azerbaijan's defense ministry released a video showing a tank flying an Azerbaijani flag leading a column of trucks into the Lachin district. AFP journalists in Lachin town saw a column of Azerbaijani trucks flanked by military vehicles from Russia, which brokered the peace settlement. Armenia agreed to hand over three districts around Karabakh - Aghdam, Lachin and Kalbajar - as part of the deal that stopped an Azerbaijani offensive that had reclaimed swathes of territory lost to Armenian separatists in a 1990s war. Like...

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