Azerbaijan Reasserts Control Over Disputed Karabakh Region

Azerbaijani President Aliyev raised nation's flag in Khankendi, former breakaway region's capital.

Ceremony reaffirms Baku's control over disputed Karabakh region.

Karabakh internationally recognized as Azerbaijan but was under ethnic Armenian control since 1994.

Azerbaijan regained control in 2020 war and subsequent offensive in September 2022.

Majority of Karabakh's ethnic Armenian population fled fearing reprisals and losing religious/cultural freedoms.