BAKU: Azerbaijani Pre­sident Ilham Aliyev on Sunday raised the national flag in the capital of the former breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh — known as Khankendi by Azerbaijan and as Stepanakert by Armenians — after a lightning military operation last month brought the territory back under Baku’s control. President Aliyev said he had achieved a decades-long “dream of Azerbaijani people” by taking control of Nagorno-Karabakh from … Continue reading Azerbaijan’s flag flies in Karabakh capital