Aliyev raises Azerbaijan's flag in former breakaway region of Karabakh

Azerbaijan's President, Ilham Aliyev, raised the national flag in the city of Khankendi, the capital of the Nagorno-Karabakh region, the presidential office said on Sunday.

The city is known as Stepanakert by Armenians.

Azerbaijan's security forces crushed the region's separatist ethnic Armenian government last month, prompting most of its 120,000 residents to flee to Armenia.

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