Armenian residents departing from the previously occupied Kalbajar region in Nagorno-Karabakh after a peace deal with Azerbaijan are burning down homes and forestland as they leave the area, Nov. 14, 2020.

Residents living in different parts of Kalbajar took the doors, windows and other parts of homes down and set the items on fire as they left before Azerbaijani residents who were displaced 27 years ago return to their homes.

Smoke rises from a burning house in Karvachar, Nov. 13, 2020.

Located in northwestern Nagorno-Karabakh to the west of Azerbaijan, the Kalbajar region had been occupied by Armenian forces since 1993.
People ride in the back of a truck past destroyed houses in the village of Knaravan, Nov. 15, 2020.

Some 60,000 Azerbaijanis had to leave their homes in 128 villages and took refuge in other parts of Azerbaijan. There were no Armenians in the area before the occupation, according to records.

A man walks past a damaged gasoline station in Kalbajar, Nov. 16, 2020.

A man is reflected in a mirror as he stands near a house set on fire by departing Armenians in the village of Cherektar in the region of Nagorno-Karabakh, Nov. 14, 2020.

A view shows a destroyed electrical substation located in the Kalbajar, Nov. 15, 2020.

A house is seen set on fire by leaving Armenians, in the village of Cherektar in the Nagorno-Karabakh region, Nov. 14, 2020.

Arsen, 35, walks past the house of his brother which he set on fire, in the village of Cherektar in the Nagorno-Karabakh region, Nov. 14, 2020.

Armenian soldiers stand next to a burning mock-up of a tank in the village of Knaravan, in the Nagorno-Karabakh region, Nov. 15, 2020.

Armenian soldiers destroy power poles in the village of Knaravan in the Nagorno-Karabakh region, Nov. 15, 2020.

An Armenian soldier is seen inside a destroyed school in the village of Knaravan, Nov. 15, 2020.

A house is seen set on fire by departing Armenians in the village of Cherektar in the region of Nagorno-Karabakh, Nov. 14, 2020.