Conflict coverage · South Caucasus

Second Nagorno-Karabakh War

27 Sep – 10 Nov 2020Key eventEssentialKarabakh · Shusha / Shushi

MilitaryTerritorial changeWeapons deliveriesArmenia–Azerbaijan / Karabakh legacy

Azerbaijan launches a full offensive and wins in 44 days — Turkish Bayraktar TB2 drones, Israeli loitering munitions and artillery mass against entrenched Armenian defences, culminating in the fall of Shusha (Shushi). Several thousand die on each side; Azerbaijan recovers the seven surrounding districts and part of the former NKAO.

Why it mattersThe war ended the post-1994 order, previewed the drone-centric warfare Ukraine would generalise, made Türkiye a formal party to the region's security, and reduced Russian primacy to a peacekeeping mandate it would fail to honour.

Confidence: HighSources: Established historical record · International Crisis Group ↗Methodology Corrections

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Karabakh conflictThe forty-four-day war

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Armenian Armed Forces · atlasDefending forcehigh confidence
Azerbaijani Armed Forces · atlasAttacking forcehigh confidence
Karabakh Armenian forces · atlasDefending forcehigh confidence

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