Azerbaijan and Armenia made conflicting claims Sunday over the fate of a strategic city within the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, as families fled heavy combating and hopes for a diplomatic settlement sank.
In Azerbaijan, President Ilham Aliyev said Azeri forces had seized the city of Shusha, which sits not as much as 10 miles from the Nagorno-Karabakh capital of Stepanakert, and along the vital avenue connecting the territory to Armenia.
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