Outbreak of Hostilities in Nagorno-Karabakh Region:

On 27 September, armed conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan ignited at the Line of Contact (LoC) in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region. Fighting has since centralized in the Tartar and Fizuli regions with unconfirmed but significant numbers of military and civilian casualties on both sides. Present-day conflict between former-USSR countries Armenia and Azerbaijan dates back to 1988 as the culmination of unresolved ethnic land disputes in a region of strategic importance to regional and international powers. 

The case trend in the U.S. is slowly declining, now at 36,000 daily new cases on average over the last seven days. This is a 10% drop from the 40,000 daily new cases on average from the week prior. similar to the moving average last week. The U.S. has now recorded over 6,300,000 confirmed cases and nearly 190,000 deaths.

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The U.S. is recording 49,000 daily new cases on average over the last week, a 17 percent decrease from the average two weeks ago. The U.S. has now recorded over 5,400,000 confirmed cases and over 171,000 deaths.