Loading ...Azerbaijan and the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh said on Tuesday they were halting hostilities after four days of intense fighting between them that had prompted warnings the conflict could spiral into all-out war.
Reuters was not immediately able to verify whether the fighting – a resurgence of a decades-old conflict over the status of the region – had, in fact, stopped.
The ceasefire announcement came as several European countries urged an end to the fighting, worried that an escalation could cause instability in a region that serves as a corridor for pipelines taking oil and gas to world markets.
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