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Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan speaks to army reservists before they go to join the frontline in Nagorno-Karabakh. Later in the early hours of Saturday, a missile strike levelled a row of homes in Azerbaijan's second city of Ganja on Saturday, killing 12 people in a sharp escalation of the conflict over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region. IMAGES
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 of Armenian military guarding the border post at the start of the Lachin Corridor to Azerbaijan, in Kornidzor. IMAGES
Stun grenades fly into crowds outside the Armenian government building, after residents took to the streets over the government's handling of escalating tensions in the separatist Nagorno-Karabakh region. Earlier, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan warned of multiple calls to stage a coup. 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