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Angry mob storms Armenia parliament after PM signs deal with Azerbaijan, Russia to end Nagorno-Karabakh war

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After a number of ceasefire agreements were broken in recent weeks, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia signed a deal Wednesday morning (November 9) to end the Nagorno-Karabakh war that has caused thousands of casualties since aggression initially started September 27.

A large group of locals in Yerevan were displeased that Armenia signed the deal, and took the streets of the capital city and even broke into the government building in the wee hours of Wednesday morning shortly after the pact was agreed upon.

Under the new agreement, Azerbaijan will hold onto areas of Nagorno-Karabakh that it's already seized during the conflict. Armenia has additionally agreed to withdraw from several other adjacent areas in the coming weeks.

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan called the deal "incredibly painful both for me and both for our people."

“Unfortunately, we are forced to admit that a series of failures still haunt us, and the city of Shushi is completely out of our control,” Vagram Pogosian, a spokesman for the president of the government in Nagorno-Karabakh, said in a statement on Facebook. “The enemy is on the outskirts of Stepanakert.”

The dispute between Armenia and Azerbaijan, two former Soviet Republics, stemmed over control of the mountainous region of Nagorno-Karabakh, also known as Artsakh.

Populated and controlled by ethnic Armenians, and aided by the Armenian diaspora, Nagorno-Karabakh sits inside Azerbaijani territory and is connected to Armenia proper by a highway.

Nagorno-Karabakh is heavily militarized and its forces have been backed by Armenia, which has a security alliance with Russia. Azerbaijan, who has close ethnic and religious ties to Turkey, has long claimed it will retake the territory.

A war over the region ensued in 1994 between Azerbaijanis and Armenians, and the current conflict is the most severe it's been since then, despite back-and-forth battles throughout the years.

In 1915, over 1.5 million Armenians died during the Armenian Genocide, killings that were carried out by the Ottoman Empire.

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