Tbilisi, Oct 17 (AFP/APP):Three weeks of indiscriminate shelling, hate-filled rhetoric and sluggish diplomacy over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh province have yielded no decisive breakthroughs and instead fuelled fears of a gruelling fight of attrition. Azerbaijan and the Armenian separatists who control its Karabakh region have been locked in a bitter impasse over the fate of the mountainous province since a war in the 1990s that left 30,000 people dead. Their long-simmering conflict erupted again three weeks ago in fierce clashes that have sparked allegations of war crimes, left hundreds of people dead and raised alarms over the failure of a decades-long … Continue reading Failed talks, battlefield impasse: Karabakh faces long war