Azerbaijan claims seizing villages in fighting with Armenia

BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) — Armenia and Azerbaijan say heavy fighting is continuing in their conflict over the separatist territory of Nagorno-Karabakh. Azerbaijan’s president said late Saturday that his troops had taken a town and several villages. Fighting broke out on Sept. 27 in the region, which is located within Azerbaijan and under the control of local ethnic Armenian forces. It is some of the worst fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh since the end of a war in 1994. Armenia’s Defen