▶ Government forces declare ceasefire

Azerbaijan’s Defence Ministry announced a unilateral ceasefire Sunday against the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh, but rebel forces in the area said that they continued to come under fire from Azerbaijani forces. Fighting flared up over the weekend with a boy and at least 30 troops killed on both sides. Each side blamed the other for the fighting, the worst since the end of a full-scale war in 1994. NagornoKarabakh, a region in Azerbaijan, has been under the control of local ethnic Armenian forces and the Armenian military since a war ended in 1994. The conflict is fuelled by tensions between Christian Armenians and mostly Muslim Azeris.