[LIVE UPDATE] Armenia, Azerbaijan, Nagorno-Karabakh conflict escalation

October 2nd, 2020 – All times GMT (Z) 19:00Z – Russia, Iran warn of ‘foreign fighters’ in Nagorno-Karabakh conflict The Russian Foreign Ministry announced on Friday that Minister Sergey Lavrov and his Iranian counterpart Javad Zarif spoke on the phone about the ongoing large-scale hostilities in Nagorno-Karabakh, where both parties expressed “serious concern” for the involvement of “militants from illegal armed groups from Syria and Libya.” Lavrov said Russia would continue mediation efforts on its own and as part of the OSCE Minsk group, while both ministers noted the important role of Armenia and Azerbaijan’s neighbors in “creating conditions conducive…