Azerbaijan’s military takeover of Nagorno-Karabakh sparked a mass exodus of nearly the entire region’s population of ethnic Armenians.

Nagorno-Karabakh is a mountainous region internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan. Roughly 120,000 ethnic Armenians were living there out of the population of a little over 140,000 .

Item 1 of 15 Vehicles carrying refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh, a region inhabited by ethnic Armenians, queue on the road leading towards the Armenian border, in Nagorno-Karabakh, September 25, 2023.