On his way from the United States to Armenia, President Sargsyan was briefed about the escalation on the contact line.

The Russian minister stressed the necessity for urgent measures to stabilize the situation in the conflict zone, the ministry’s press service said.

The worst-hit area was the capital, Baghdad, with 259 civilians killed and 770 wounded, followed by the northern Ninevah province.

The OSCE Minsk Group Co-chairs will meet in Vienna next week to discuss escalation in the Karabakh conflict zone.

Both the Nusra Front and the Islamic State group are excluded from the cease-fire that began in late February.

Azerbaijan used a Grad multiple rocket launcher in the Martuni direction of the contact line, killing a 12-year-old child and wounding two others.

In its annual report the commission said 900 more women suffered sexual violence and nearly 800 took, or tried to take, their own lives.

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The Artsakh Republic President gave detailed instructions to the Defense Ministry on safeguarding the inviolability of frontiers.

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