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The Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict is the region's longest-running interstate dispute, centred on Nagorno-Karabakh, a territory internationally recognised as Azerbaijani and inhabited by ethnic Armenians. It was fought over in a first war in 1988-1994, a second war in 2020, and a 2023 Azerbaijani operation, after which Azerbaijan reestablished full control and the territory's Armenian population departed. The two states have negotiated toward a peace treaty and the delimitation of their border, with outstanding issues including the return of prisoners and detainees, accountability and war-crimes allegations, mutual constitutional and territorial claims, and guarantees against renewed fighting. In parallel, Armenia and Turkey -- whose shared border has been closed since the 1990s -- have pursued normalisation, including talks on trade and reopening rail and road links. The situation spans a diplomatic track and a persistent risk of renewed border clashes.
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Weekly attributed-headline count per narrative. Visual asymmetry is signal: some coalitions dominate the vocabulary, others stay sporadic.
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Countries directly involved in these tensions, or whose own outlets cover them.
Western and Turkish framing celebrates the Armenia-Azerbaijan settlement -- and the parallel Armenia-Turkey opening -- as a historic, US-brokered peace that ends decades of war, delimits the border, reopens trade and railways, and integrates the South Caucasus.
Critics reject the triumphant peace account from two directions: a pro-Armenian and human-rights framing sees a capitulation imposed on a defeated Armenia that leaves the 2023 exodus, prisoners of war and war-crimes accountability unaddressed; a Russian framing sees a Western- and Turkish-brokered arrangement that sidelines Moscow and its peacekeepers.
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