Azeri Forces Close in on Nagorno-Karabakh’s Biggest City

People celebrate on the streets after Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev said the country's forces had taken Shusha, which Armenians call Shushi, during the fighting over the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh, in Baku, Azerbaijan, on Nov. 8, 2020. Stringer/Reuters

YEREVAN/BAKU—Nagorno-Karabakh’s ethnic Armenian leadership said on Monday it had lost control of the mountain enclave’s second-largest city and that Azeri forces were closing in on Stepanakert, its seat of power.

After six weeks of heavy fighting, Azerbaijan said on Sunday it had captured Shusha, which is known by Armenians as Shushi and sits on a mountain top overlooking Stepanakert, Nagorno-Karabakh’s biggest city.