AZERBAIJAN : New Units Mustered to Repel Armenians
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
New fighting units are being mustered by the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry to repel Armenian forces that have captured nearly a tenth of its territory. A television journalist in the capital, Baku, said the government is hastily assembling fresh combat units to repel a major Armenian offensive. The former Soviet republics of Armenia and Azerbaijan are locked in an undeclared war over the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh.
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