Sketchy initial reports from the combat zone said army and Interior Ministry troops were being hampered by roadblocks in the hilly countryside of western Azerbaijan.

It is found in western Iran and western Azerbaijan.

The idea was to create units of civilian volunteers who would travel to western Azerbaijan and defend villages that were reportedly being besieged by Armenian vigilantes.

The following day, four Azerbaijani soldiers were killed near Asagi Askipara, in the Qazakh Rayon of western Azerbaijan.

By the end of April the Armenian forces were in control of most of western Azerbaijan including all of Karabakh with the surrounding areas.

Heavy rain fell in western Azerbaijan on May 1.

By May 2, a rain-induced landslide in Alunitdag village in Dashkasan District (western Azerbaijan) covered the yards of two smallholdings.

The war with Armenia over the Armenian-inhabited enclave of Karabakh in western Azerbaijan was little help in nation-building.

Armenians shot residents and set fire to houses in three villages in western Azerbaijan over the weekend, burning a family of five to death and killing two others, officials reported today.

Today, the territory of the former Elisabethpol Governorate is in western Azerbaijan and adjacent areas of Armenia.