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On November 10, the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war came to an apparent end after six weeks of fighting. A Russian-brokered peace deal between Armenia and Azerbaijan halted the hostilities.The mountainous, Armenian-majority enclave within Azerbaijan has been bitterly contested since the late Soviet period, with a 1988–1994 war claiming tens of thousands of lives. That war resulted in de facto Armenian control of the territory, leading to sporadic fighting over the ensuing decades.A Turkish-backed Azerbaijani offensive kicked off on September 27 following border clashes in July. After a series of critical Azerbaijani military advances, including the seizure of the city of Susha, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan was compelled to accept peace terms he described as unbelievably painful" for him and the Armenian people.The peace deal
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