Azerbaijani Forces Close In On Nagorno-Karabakh’s ‘Unassailable’ Mountain Fortress City – Analysis

By Ron Synovitz*

(RFE/RL) -- A century-old Armenian expression says, “Whoever controls the city of Shushi controls the whole of Nagorno-Karabakh.”

That proved to be true in May 1992 when ethnic Armenian fighters drove out Azerbaijan’s army and seized the mountain fortress city, known in Azeri as Susa.

After a...