From the New York Times, I'm Sabrina Tavernisi, and this is the daily.

This morning, in Stepana Kurt, the capital of Nagorno-Karabakh, the government of Azerbaijan

said it had mounted a counterterrorist operation, but the ethnic Armenians who live here saw

it as an unprovoked and opportunistic attack.

In late September, one of the world's most intractable conflicts ended, causing tens

of thousands of Armenians to flee their homes.

On the streets of Stepana Kurt, panic took over, as mortars pounded its surroundings.

Overwhelmingly, the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh now, a defeated people, have decided it's

safer to flee their homeland than live under Azerbaijany rule.

Today, my colleague, Andrew Higgins, on how that conflict started, why it lasted for

more than 30 years, and what its end can tell us about the nature of seemingly insolvable

disputes.

It's Wednesday, November 1st.

So Andy, I want to start by breaking the third wall here, to say, you and I actually recorded

a version of this episode, and I was looking back at my calendar just now to see when we

actually did that.

It was October 6th, and the team had the episode ready to go for that Monday, but then that

weekend, Hamas militants crossed into Israel and our attention shifted to another part

of the world, and we did not actually run the episode.

Yeah, exactly.

And put what we were talking about in a slightly less important place.

However, I think what we were talking about is very instructive and important when it

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