<p>Armenia on Saturday said that more than two thousand fighters were killed in six weeks of clashes with Azerbaijan over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region.</p>.<p>"To date, our forensic service has examined the corpses of 2,317 dead servicemen, including unidentified ones," Armenian health ministry spokeswoman Alina Nikoghosyan wrote on Facebook.</p>.<p>The updated death toll from the Armenian side pushes its fatalities up by nearly 1,000 compared to the last confirmed toll among Armenian fighters.</p>.<p>Nearly two months of fierce clashes between the ex-Soviet rivals ended this week with a Russian-brokered peace accord that sees Armenia cede swathes of territory captured by Azerbaijan's forces.</p>.<p>Baku's army has never revealed details of its military fatalities, but the overall human cost of the fighting is expected to be much higher than reported.</p>.<p>Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday that the number of fatalities in the conflict was higher than 4,000 and that some 8,000 people had been left injured.</p>.<p>At least 143 civilians have been confirmed dead in the fighting.</p>.<p>Putin said that tens of thousands of people had been displaced by the heavy clashes that also left "civilian infrastructure and numerous cultural sites" destroyed.</p>.<p>The peace deal stipulates that Azerbaijan's forces will retain control over areas seized in the fighting, including the second-largest town of Shusha, while Armenia agreed to a timetable to withdraw from large parts of Nagorno-Karabakh and surrounding regions.</p>
<p>Armenia on Saturday said that more than two thousand fighters were killed in six weeks of clashes with Azerbaijan over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region.</p>.<p>"To date, our forensic service has examined the corpses of 2,317 dead servicemen, including unidentified ones," Armenian health ministry spokeswoman Alina Nikoghosyan wrote on Facebook.</p>.<p>The updated death toll from the Armenian side pushes its fatalities up by nearly 1,000 compared to the last confirmed toll among Armenian fighters.</p>.<p>Nearly two months of fierce clashes between the ex-Soviet rivals ended this week with a Russian-brokered peace accord that sees Armenia cede swathes of territory captured by Azerbaijan's forces.</p>.<p>Baku's army has never revealed details of its military fatalities, but the overall human cost of the fighting is expected to be much higher than reported.</p>.<p>Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday that the number of fatalities in the conflict was higher than 4,000 and that some 8,000 people had been left injured.</p>.<p>At least 143 civilians have been confirmed dead in the fighting.</p>.<p>Putin said that tens of thousands of people had been displaced by the heavy clashes that also left "civilian infrastructure and numerous cultural sites" destroyed.</p>.<p>The peace deal stipulates that Azerbaijan's forces will retain control over areas seized in the fighting, including the second-largest town of Shusha, while Armenia agreed to a timetable to withdraw from large parts of Nagorno-Karabakh and surrounding regions.</p>