YEREVAN/BAKU (Reuters) - Azerbaijan and Armenia accused each other on Monday of stoking tensions over the breakaway enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh inside Azerbaijan after a recurrence of fighting last week, although Yerevan said there was no immediate threat of war.
The clashes on the Azeri enclave's fringes, in which at least 16 combatants were killed and several were wounded, highlighted the risk of broader conflict in the South Caucasus area where vital oil and natural gas flow from the Caspian region to Europe.
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