South Caucasus

An Azerbaijani soldier keeping guard by the Aras River, which forms much of Azeri-Iranian border, in Jabrayil, Azerbaijan, on December 7, 2020. (Murat Kaynak/Andalou Agency via Getty Images)

A destroyed tank in the town of Suqovusan, part of the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region, on December 2, 2020, after a US-brokered ceasefire temporarily ended fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan. (Karen Monasyan/AFP via Getty Images)

Azeri service members carry a giant flag during a procession marking the anniversary of the end of the 2020 military conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh breakaway region on November 8, 2021, in Baku, Azerbaijan. (Aziz Karimov/Getty Images)

Azerbaijan flag waving in center of the city on November 28, 2020 in Baku, Azerbaijan. (Photo by Aziz Karimov/Getty Images)

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev poses with a Harop drone in Jabrayil, Azerbaijan (Press Service, Republic of Azerbaijan)

The Flame Towers in Baku, Azerbaijan (Getty Images)

The eternal flame burns at the Armenian genocide memorial on April 24, 2015 in Yerevan, Armenia (Photo by Brendan Hoffman/Getty Images)

Migrants who fled fighting in the Ethiopia‘s Tigray region gather at the border reception center in Hamdiyet, Sudan, Nov. 14.

A view of a make-shift chapel on an Armenian frontline position on October 20, 2020 near Aghdam, Nagorno-Karabakh.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks remotely to the United Nations General Assembly, Sept. 22.