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Subunits of the Armenian Armed Forces were silenced with a retaliatory fire after they shattered ceasefire with Azerbaijan on October 16, the Azerbaijani defense ministry reported.

The Armenian Armed Forces started shooting from the nameless hills of Ijevan region of Armenia at the positions of Azerbaijani Armed Forces in the Jafarli village of Gazakh region.

The Armenian forces also shot at the positions of Azerbaijani Armed Forces from the nameless hills of Goranboy region, the Defense Ministry said.

For over two decades, Azerbaijan and Armenia have been locked in conflict which emerged over Armenia's territorial claims against its South Caucasus neighbor. Since a war in the early 1990s, Armenian armed forces have occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan's territory, including Nagorno-Karabakh and seven surrounding regions. A fragile ceasefire has been in place since 1994, but long-standing efforts by US, Russian and French mediators have been largely fruitless so far. Armenia has not yet implemented the U.N. Security Council's four resolutions on its pullout from the neighboring country's territories.