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Images show aid workers and refugees in the Armenian city of Goris as people continue to arrive from the Nagorno-Karabakh region. On Thursday, Yerevan reported that more than 65,000 people have fled the enclave, representing more than half of its ethnic Armenian population. IMAGES
Images filmed from the edge of Azerbaijani territory show Armenian ambulances heading into Azerbaijan and Nagorno-Karabakh to help victims of a massive explosion at a fuel depot in the city of Stepanakert, which killed 20 people and injured more than 200. IMAGES
The exodus continues along the Lachin corridor, a mountain road leading out of Nagorno-Karabakh, after the predominantly Armenian enclave fell to the Azerbaijani military last week. On Tuesday, Armenia reported that more than 13,000 refugees had fled the disputed region since Sunday. IMAGES
Families of ethnic Armenians carrying their belongings in bags arrive in the Armenian city of Goris and receive food and water at a refugee centre after they left the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh, days after Azerbaijan launched an offensive. IMAGES
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan visits a military cemetery as Armenia and Azerbaijan mourn the thousands killed in their brief but brutal war for control of the Nagorno-Karabakh region on the first anniversary of the conflict. The war for control of the mountainous region left some 6,500 people dead and sparked mutual allegations of war crimes. It ended with a Russian-brokered ceasefire that saw Armenia hand over to Baku swathes of contested territories it had controlled for decades. IMAGES
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan arrives in Moscow ahead of a tripartite meeting with Russian and Azerbaijani leaders on Nagorno-Karabakh. Vladimir Putin is due to receive Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and the Armenian PM in Moscow for trilateral talks on the implementation of the cessation of hostilities agreement in the contested region, signed on November 9 under the aegis from Russia. IMAGES