The fighting over Nagorno-Karabakh, recognized internationally as part of Azerbaijan, goes back decades. But last week, after a battle that lasted less than 24 hours, Azerbaijan declared victory over the territory and invited the ethnic Armenians who weren’t involved in the fighting to stay. Now, tens of thousands of them are leaving their homeland without any hope of returning. So how did this happen, and what does this mean for the people most affected as an era comes to an end?  

In this episode: 

• Alison Tahmizian Meuse (@AliTahmizian), Strategic Advisor, DeepStrat
• Osama Bin Javaid (@osamabinjavaid), Al Jazeera English correspondent
• Bernard Smith (@JazeeraBernard), Al Jazeera English correspondent 

Episode credits:

This episode was produced by Ashish Malhotra with Amy Walters and our host Malika Bilal. David Enders fact-checked this episode.

Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our lead of audience development and engagement is Aya Elmileik, and Adam Abou-Gad is our engagement producer.

Alexandra Locke is The Take’s executive producer, and Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera's head of audio.

For more, listen to our 2020 episode, "The long story between Armenia and Azerbaijan"

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