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    Agence France Presse
    February 28, 2015 Saturday 5:55 PM GMT


    Azerbaijani forces kill two Armenian troops: rebels

    Yerevan, Feb 28 2015

    Azerbaijani forces on Saturday killed two ethnic-Armenian servicemen
    of the breakaway Nagorny Karabakh army, the separatist defence
    ministry said, in the latest clash along the rebel region's volatile
    frontline.

    "On February 28, Azerbaijani army units attempted a reconnaissance
    incursion at the north-eastern sector of the frontline and were
    repelled by the Karabakh armed forces," the ministry said in a
    statement.

    "Two Karabakh army servicemen... were killed in action."

    Azerbaijan and Armenia are locked in a decades-long conflict over
    Nagorny Karabakh, an ethnic Armenian enclave in Azerbaijan.

    Despite years of negotiations, the two sides have not signed a final
    peace deal, with Karabakh internationally recognised as part of
    Azerbaijan.

    Clashes between Azerbaijani and Armenian forces intensified again in
    January following an unprecedented spiral of violence last year.

    At least 13 people from both sides were reported killed and 18 wounded
    this year in similar incidents on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border, and
    along the Karabakh frontline.

    Ethnic Armenian separatists backed by Yerevan seized control of
    Karabakh and seven adjacent districts of Azerbaijan during a 1990s war
    that left some 30,000 dead.

    Baku, whose military spending exceeds Armenia's entire state budget,
    has threatened to take back the territories by force if negotiations
    fail to yield results.

    Armenia, which is heavily armed by Russia, says it could crush any offensive.


    From: Baghdasarian
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