France calls for urgent UN meeting, US plans holding talks on Karabakh

France has called for an urgent meeting of the United Nations Security Council, while the United States said it is engaging diplomatically after Azerbaijan launched a military operation in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region.

Azerbaijan announced on Tuesday that it had initiated "counter-terrorism operations" targeting several military sites in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region, where explosions were heard in the capital, as reported by a journalist from the AFP news agency.