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2020

Second Karabakh war

September 27, 2020

Azerbaijan, armed with Israeli loitering munitions and Turkish Bayraktar drones, launched an offensive that recaptured most of Nagorno-Karabakh from Armenia in forty-four days, demonstrating the lethal effectiveness of modern drone warfare. Russian peacekeepers froze the front. Three years later Azerbaijan would finish the job, and one of the post-Soviet world's frozen conflicts would simply end.