WW3 Alert: New Front Heats Up, Armenia & Azerbaijan Clash, Dozens Of Casualties (Video)

via Bloomberg By Zulfugar Agayev

Azerbaijan’s Defense Ministry said it lost four more troops in overnight clashes with Armenians near the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh in the worst escalation of tensions between the two former Soviet republics in 20 years.

The Azeri servicemen were killed while repelling Armenian attacks in Agdam and Tartar districts northeast of Nagorno-Karabakh, the ministry said today on its website.

Nagorno-Karabakh’s Defense Ministry said an ethnic Armenian soldier was also killed while resisting a “sabotage attack” by Azeri forces.

Eight Azeri and two Armenian troops were confirmed killed in skirmishes on July 31.

For those unaware, Armenia and the Karabakh state are backed by Russia while Azerbaijan is backed by the US and NATO.  It’s the same thing being played out in Ukraine and Syria except this is in perhaps an even more strategic area of the world.  I believe that Russia has the upper hand in this region of the world.  They dominated Georgia in a 2008 war and Armenia consistantly gets the better Azerbaijan in any clashes that erut between them.  These are the worst clashes in 20 years.