Armenians protest outside Azerbaijani consulate

Crowds of people demonstrated outside the Azerbaijan Consulate in Los Angeles on Wednesday as heavy fighting between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces continued into a fourth day. Both nations are battling over the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh, with statements from both sides indicating that the flare-up of a decades-old conflict that has killed dozens of people since Sunday was no closer to an end.

Hundreds gathered outside the Azerbaijan consulate in the US state to protest against what demonstrators say is Azerbaijani aggression against Armenia, ABC 7 reported. Armenia and Azerbaijan have been locked for decades in a conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh, where a separatist war was fought in the early 1990s until three years after the breakup of the Soviet Union.

The region in the Caucasus Mountains of about 4,400 square kilometres (1,700 square miles), roughly the size of the U.S. state of Delaware, is 50 kilometres (30 miles) from the Armenian border. On Wednesday, the fighting continued despite repeated calls for a cease-fire from around the globe.

According to officials in Nagorno-Karabakh, around 100 servicemen and several civilians on their side have been killed since the fighting erupted on Sunday. Azerbaijani officials didn't provide details on its military casualties but said 14 civilians have been killed and 46 wounded on its side.

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