(23 Oct 2020) Heavy fighting raged Friday over Nagorno-Karabakh even as top diplomats from Armenia and Azerbaijan visited Washington for negotiations on settling the neighboring countries' decades-long conflict.
The regional capital Stepanakert was shelled during the night, forcing locals into bomb shelters.
Some remained defiant, saying they would not be driven out from their homeland.
Nagorno-Karabakh lies within Azerbaijan but has been under the control of ethnic Armenian forces backed by the Armenian government since 1994 at the end of a separatist war following the breakup of the Soviet Union three years earlier.
It is facing the largest escalation of fighting since then, with hundreds killed since September 27.
Attempts at cease-fires have so-far failed.
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