The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is an ethnic conflict between the Republic of Armenia and Azerbaijan over the self-declared Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, a region in Azerbaijan populated primarily by ethnic Armenians. It has its origins in the early 20th century, although the present conflict began in 1988 and escalated into a full-scale war in the early 1990s.
Directly leading up to WW I (1914-18) were two other major European conflicts in 1912 and 1913, usually called the First and Second what?
In which country, in June 2010, were there clashes between the two main ethnic groups, the Uzbeks and Kyrgyz, a state of emergency declared and troops deployed, inciting fears that the country could be heading towards a civil war?
