2016 Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
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The 2016 Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, also known as the Four-Day War,[lower-alpha 1] April War,[24][25][26][lower-alpha 2] or April clashes,[lower-alpha 3] began along the former Nagorno-Karabakh line of contact on 1 April 2016 with the Artsakh Defence Army, backed by the Armenian Armed Forces, on one side and the Azerbaijani Armed Forces on the other.
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Belligerents | |||||||||
Artsakh Armenia | Azerbaijan | ||||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
Bako Sahakyan Levon Mnatsakanyan Serzh Sargsyan Seyran Ohanyan Yuri Khatchaturov |
Ilham Aliyev Zakir Hasanov Najmeddin Sadikov Hikmat Hasanov Polad Hashimov | ||||||||
Units involved | |||||||||
Nagorno-Karabakh Defence Army Armed Forces of Armenia[6] | Azerbaijani Armed Forces | ||||||||
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The clashes occurred in a region that is disputed between the self-proclaimed Republic of Artsakh and the Republic of Azerbaijan. The region includes the former Soviet Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast and the surrounding districts of Azerbaijan under the control of Armenian forces at the time. Azerbaijan claimed to have started a military operation to prevent purported continuous Armenian shelling of civilian areas in Azerbaijan.[29] However, there was no evidence of Armenian shelling. Until the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war, the clashes were the worst since the 1994 ceasefire agreement signed by Artsakh, Azerbaijan and Armenia.[30][31]
A ceasefire was reached on 5 April between Azerbaijan and Armenia in Moscow. The Nagorno-Karabakh authorities also welcomed the oral agreement.[32][33] After the agreement, both sides accused each other of violations. Azerbaijan claimed to have regained 20 km2 (7.7 sq mi) of land,[34] while Armenian officials suggested a loss of 8 km2 (3.1 sq mi) of land of no strategic importance.[35][36] However, the International Crisis Group reported that those heights were of strategic importance.[37]
Officially, Baku reported the loss of 31 servicemen without publishing their names. Armenian sources claimed much higher numbers varying between 300 and 500.[38] The Ministry of Defence of Armenia reported the names of 92 military and civilian casualties, in total.[39] The US State Department estimated that a total of 350 people, both military and civilian, had died.[40] Official sources of the warring parties put those estimates either much higher or much lower, depending on the source.