Fuad Ismayilov’s sister kissed his hand shortly after he had been killed in a rocket attack launched by Armenian forces on the city of Barda in Azerbaijan. Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International quickly concluded that the weapons used on Barda included banned cluster munitions, which in the end were said to have killed 21 civilians and inured more than 70. It was the deadliest civilian casualty toll from a single attack on either side of the whole conflict.
A young man played a guitar and sang while friends looked on along Baku Boulevard on the banks of the Caspian Sea in Baku.
Female family members cried over the coffin of Amar Isakli, a 23 year old soldier in the Azerbaijani army who died after a shell fired by Armenian forces hit a neighbours house in the village of Jemilli near the frontline city of Terter.
Friends and family members looked on as the body of Amar Isakli was taken away to be buried at the nearest cemetery in the frontline city of Terter.
A man peered out from the broken window of his apartment in the city of Terter, which is just a few kilometres from the frontline and has been routinely bombarded since the start of the latest war between Azerbaijan and Armenia.
Fazil Ibadli cooked lunch for his family members and neighbours who he shares a basement bomb shelter with in the frontline town of Terter. Most of the women and children have been evacuated from such areas and some men have remained to keep an eye on their homes. They live underground almost permanently now, only going out to buy food and check on their houses.
Women and children gathered in the hallway of a school in the city of Barda that had been turned in to a shelter for people who had been displaced by fighting in the frontline towns and villages around Terter and Agdam in Azerbaijan.
A young boy sat in a car outside a school in the city of Barda that has been turned in to a shelter for people who have been displaced by fighting in the frontline towns and villages around Terter and Agdam.
Azerbaijani soldiers walked down into a trench during a training exercise on a base near the frontline somewhere in central Azerbaijan. Many of the young men had already been fighting on the frontline and were on standby waiting to be called up again.
Ali Ibrahimov, 40, began to clear his destroyed home in the Cevathan neighbourhood of Ganja, Azerbaijan’s second largest city. The residential area was hit by a Scud missile fired by Armenian forces on the the 17th of October. The strike killed 13 civilians, including two children and injuring 40 others. Ali and his family were unscathed but their house was completely destroyed.
A pink teddy bear lay in the middle of the destroyed interior of a house in the Cevathan neighbourhood of Ganja, Azerbaijan’s second largest city. The residential area was hit by a scud missile fired by Armenian forces on the the 17th of October. The strike killed 13 civilians, including two children and injuring 40 others.
A family surveyed their destroyed home in Vardeni neighbourhood of the city of Ganja, Azerbaijan’s second largest city. The residential area was hit by a scud missile fired by Armenian forces on the the 10th of October. The strike killed 10 civilians and injured up to 40.
Men played backgammon at a school in the city of Barda that has been turned in to a shelter for people who have been displaced by fighting in the frontline towns and villages around Terter and Agdam.
Two elderly men watched news of President Aliyev’s latest address to the nation at a school in the city of Brada that has been turned in to a shelter for people who have been displaced by fighting in the frontline towns and villages around Terter and Agdam.
Seriyye Maharramova, 73, sat in the underground bunker where she now lives along with 4 other people in the frontline city of Terter.
Rovshen Iskandarova (centre) helped carry the coffin of his 7-year-old daughter Aysu who was killed the day before in an Armenian rocket attack in the village of Qarayusifli, near the city of Barda.
People took cover in an alleyway in the Azerbaijani city of Barda during a rocket attack launched by Armenian forces.
Doctors and nurses tended to a taxi driver who had been injured in a rocket attack launched by Armenian forces on the city of Barda in Azerbaijan.
The smouldering wreck of a car sat in the road moments after a rocket attack launched by Armenian forces on the city of Barda in Azerbaijan.
Rescue workers retrieved the body of a man who was killed in his car during a rocket attack launched by Armenian forces targeting the city of Barda, Azerbaijan. Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International quickly concluded that the weapons used on Barda included banned cluster munitions, which in the end were said to have killed 21 civilians and inured more than 70. It was the deadliest civilian casualty toll from a single attack on either side of the whole conflict.
Friends and family members cried over the body of Fuad Ismayilov, 31, who was killed moments earlier in a rocket launched by Armenian forces on the city of Barda in Azerbaijan.
The destroyed interior of Fuad Ismayilov’s family home. The 31-year-old had been killed moments earlier in a rocket launched by Armenian forces on the city of Barda in Azerbaijan.
Azeris celebrated victory and commemorated martyrs in Baku, one week after a peace deal was announced over Nagorno Karabakh.
Azerbaijani bomb disposal experts detonated an incendiary explosive that had failed to explode after being fired by Armenian forces at Azerbaijani troops during the 6 week war over Nagorno Karabakh. Fizuli region, Azerbaijan.
A small church located at a remote Armenian base in the Fizuli region of Azerbaijan, that was retaken by Azerbaijani forces several weeks earlier, after nearly 30 years.
Azerbaijani soldiers and police officers manned a checkpoint on a road outside the recently recaptured town of Fizuli, one of several districts surrounding Nagorno Karabkah that Azerbaijan reclaimed.
Destroyed Armenian tanks lay on the side of a road near the former frontline in the Fizuli region of Axerbaijan, that was retaken by Azeri forces after nearly 30 years of Armenian control.
A young boy herded a flock of sheep through the village of Ciraqli, which sat on the frontline between Azerbaijani and Armenian forces near Agdam for nearly 30 years.
A damaged bust lay on the ground of the destroyed cemetery of Fizuli town. Once a rich agricultural part of the country, the area was left in ruin nearly 30 years of neglect under Armenian control. 130,000 mainly ethnic Azeris were displaced from the wider Fizuli region in the early 90’s during the first Karabakh war.
Azerbaijani troops returning from the frontline stopped on the side of the road outside the town of Fizuli.
Civilian workers cleaned up the grounds around the mosque in Agdam the day before the president of Azerbaijan was due to visit the area. Agdam the surrounding district had been handed back to Azerbaijan after nearly 30 years of Armenian control.
The city of Agdam lay in ruins after nearly 30 years under the control of Armenian forces. Originally home to around 40,000 people the city was captured by Armenia in the first Karabakh war in the early 90’s. The entire population fled the city and its surrounding districts and has remained unpopulated for nearly 3 decades. The area was handed back to Azerbaijan as part of the deal that ended the 2020 war between Azerbaijan and Armenia over Nagorno Karabakh.
An Azerbaijani soldier and a man dressed in civilian clothing prayed at the mosque in Agdam city, which had been handed back to Azerbaijan after nearly 30 years of Armenian control. The mosque was reported to be the only structurally intact building in the whole city but was dilapidated, stripped of anything valuable and covered in graffiti left by Armenian soldiers.