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Heavily damaged home in Martuni, Nagorno-Karabakh, on October 1, 2020. The house was hit at 7:30 in the morning of September 27, 2020, the first day the war began..The war in Nagorno-Karabakh, with Azerbaijan, broke out in the morning of September 27, 2020. It quickly escalated from the frontlines to populated towns and villages..For three decades there had been a conflict in the South Caucasus, in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh, with fighting between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces. In 1994, after six years of war, a ceasefire was concluded, but violence continued along the contact line between the unrecognized republic of Nagorno-Karabakh, and Azerbaijan. It broke out into a four-day war in April 2016, after which it intensely reignited on September 27, 2020. (KEYSTONE/VII Photo/Anush Babajanyan)