Beginning in the late 1980s, Azerbaijan and Armenia engaged in a destructive war over Nagorno-Karabakh, a mountainous enclave that is located in Azerbaijan but inhabited mostly by Armenians. Here, a battle in early 1992 reduced the village of Kirkijan to rubble.
S. Mamontov, G. Khamelyanin/ITAR-TASS/SOVFOTO-EASTFOTO