{"id":102330,"date":"2020-11-20T14:18:33","date_gmt":"2020-11-20T06:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=102330"},"modified":"2020-11-21T00:09:49","modified_gmt":"2020-11-20T16:09:49","slug":"update-azerbaijan-army-enters-district-handed-over-by-armenia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=102330","title":{"rendered":"Update: Azerbaijan army enters district handed over by Armenia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Azerbaijan-army-enters-district-handed-over-by-Armenia.jpg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Azerbaijan-army-enters-district-handed-over-by-Armenia.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>BAKU, Nov 20 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Azerbaijan\u2019s army said Friday it had entered the district of Aghdam, the first of three to be handed back by Armenia as part of a Russian-brokered peace deal to end fighting in the Nagorno-Karabakh region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cUnits of the Azerbaijan Army entered the Aghdam region on Nov 20,\u201d<br>Azerbaijan\u2019s defence ministry said of the district, which had been controlled by Armenian separatists for nearly 30 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As part of last week\u2019s peace deal, Armenia agreed to return some 15 to 20 percent of the Nagorno-Karabakh territory captured by Azerbaijan in recent fighting, including the historical town of Shusha.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tensions between the two former Soviet Union countries reached new heights on Sept 27, when clashes between Azerbaijan and ethnic Armenian forces broke out over the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave and surrounding areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nagorno-Karabakh is in Azerbaijan but has been dominated by ethnic Armenians for years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The six-week conflict has killed more than 1,000 people, including civilians on both sides.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Nov 10, the two countries signed a Russia-brokered agreement to end fighting and work toward a comprehensive resolution. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BAKU, Nov 20 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Azerbaijan\u2019s army said Friday it had entered the district of Aghdam, the first of three to be handed back by Armenia as part of a Russian-brokered peace deal to end fighting in the Nagorno-Karabakh region. \u201cUnits of the Azerbaijan Army entered the Aghdam region on Nov 20,\u201dAzerbaijan\u2019s defence ministry said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":102376,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[209,291],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102330"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=102330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/102376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=102330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=102330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=102330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}