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After 4 days of fierce fighting, a ceasefire has been agreed between Azerbaijan and the ethnically-Armenian authorities who control the separatist region. There had been concern that the flare up could lead to a resumption of all-out war in the disputed enclave. The former Soviet states of Azerbaijan and Armenia fought a six-year war over the territory in which thousands were killed and displaced on both sides. The war ended with a fragile truce in 1994, since when there's been only sporadic violence. The 麻豆社's Rayhan Demytrie explains the history of the territory and the violence that afflicts it.

(Photo: Armenian servicemen of the self-defense army of Nagorno-Karabakh fire an artillery shell towards Azeri forces. Credit: Vahram Baghdasaryan/AFP/Getty Images)