Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone widens as Turkey denies downing Armenian war plane

Armenia and Azerbaijan have accused one another of firing directly into each other's territory, while Turkey has denied shooting down an Armenian fighter jet as the worst regional fighting in the area since the 1990s raged for a third day.

Both Armenia and Azerbaijan on Tuesday (local time) reported munitions being fired from the other side across their shared border, well to the west of the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region over which fierce fighting broke out between Azeri and ethnic Armenian forces on Sunday.

The incidents signalled a further escalation of the conflict despite…