Photos from the Armenian side were made by Aris Messinis, while Bulent Kilic filed from Azerbaijan.
On The Front Lines Around Nagorno-Karabakh
- By AFP
The AFP photo agency has two of its most experienced photographers working on either side of the ongoing conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan. This is what they have witnessed since the latest flare-up over the breakaway Azerbaijani region of Nagorno-Karabakh erupted on September 27.
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An Armenian soldier on the front line as troops fight to hold positions on October 18.
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An Azerbaijani soldier stands in Jabrayil on October 16 after the town was captured from ethnic Armenian forces.
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Retired Armenian police officer Genadiy Avanesian, 73, searches for belongings in the remains of his house in Stepanakert, which was hit hard by shelling on October 10. Stepanakert is the main city of Nagorno-Karabakh, with around 55,000 residents before the latest fighting.
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A resident sits amid the rubble as rescuers search for his relatives after a rocket hit a residential area in Ganca, Azerbaijan’s second-largest city, on October 17.
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An Armenian soldier peers at the sky as a drone buzzes over the front lines on October 18.
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An Azerbaijani soldier walks past a damaged vehicle in Jabrayil on October 16.
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Arthur Sahakian, 63, prays inside the artillery-damaged Holy Savior Cathedral in Shushi, in Nagorno-Karabakh, on October 13.
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Locals watch the search for survivors after buildings in Ganca were struck by a rocket on October 11.
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A member of the Halo Trust, a mine-clearing NGO, installs a sign warning of an unexploded rocket in a yard in Stepanakert on October 14.
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Relatives of Royal Sahnazarov, Zuleyha Sahnazarova, and their daughter Medine Sahnazorava, who were killed when a rocket hit their home in Ganca, mourn during their funeral on October 17.
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A mother mourns her son, draped in the flag of Nagorno-Karabakh, which is internationally recognized as Azerbaijani territory but is mostly populated by ethnic Armenians, during his funeral in Stepanakert on October 17.
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A destroyed tank in Jabrayil, after the town was captured by Azerbaijani forces, photographed from a passing car on October 16.
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A villager arrives at a neighbor’s destroyed home in the Martakert region of Nagorno-Karabakh on October 15.
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A man looks at a crater blasted into a road in Tartar, near the front line of the ongoing conflict, on October 18.
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A wounded soldier grimaces in pain as he receives medical care in a hospital outside Stepanakert on October 14.
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Mikhail Ismailov walks out of a trench near his home, built as a refuge from shells and missiles, on October 14.
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Neighbors share food outside a damaged apartment block in Stepanakert on October 8.
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Qowkar Movsumov, 32, plays on a string instrument while sheltering in Tartar on October 19.
