Armenia said on Wednesday three civilians had been killed in Martakert, a town situated in the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh inside Azerbaijan, as a result of an Azeri attack, the Armenpress news agency reported. Azerbaijan and ethnic Armenian forces fought new clashes in Nagorno-Karabakh on Wednesday in the biggest eruption of their decades-old conflict since the mid-1990s. France and Turkey traded recriminations as international tensions mounted.