Iran Press/ Asia: Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev raised national flag in the main city of Nagorno-Karabakh on Sunday, cementing Baku's conquest of the region after last month's lightning offensive that led to an exodus of ethnic Armenians.
It was Aliyev's first visit to the city -- which Azerbaijan calls Khankendi and Armenia calls Stepanakert -- since it fell to Armenian separatists in the early 1990s.
Baku published images of Aliyev touring Karabakh after his forces swept through the mountainous region in a 24-hours September offensive that ended three decades of Armenian separatist rule.
The vast majority of the estimated 120,000 ethnic Armenians that had been living in the territory have since fled to Armenia. 219
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