The Russian Foreign Ministry has obtained information about the transfer of terrorists from the Middle East to Nagorno-Karabakh, as a result of which a new "terrorist enclave" may emerge in the region, official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova said Thursday, November 5.

In the war against Artsakh (Karabakh), Turkey is supporting Azerbaijan militarily, also by transferring terrorist mercenaries from Libya and Syria to fight against Karabakh. Armenia was the first to report on Turkey's deployment of thousands of Syrian fighters to Azerbaijan. International media publications followed suit, as did reactions from France, Russia, Iran and Syria. The Nagorno-Karabakh Defense Army has already unveiled footage from the interrogation of two such terrorists captured on the front.

"According to our information, members of international terrorist organizations are currently being transferred from the Middle East to the zone of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict," Zakharov said, describing them as radical jihadists.

"All this cannot but cause serious concern, since such developments are fraught with the emergence of a new terrorist enclave, this time in the Transcaucasus, in the future."

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in an interview with Kommersant on Tuesday that the number of militants involved in Karabakh hostilities is approaching 2,000.

Azerbaijan, with help from Turkey and terrorist mercenaries deployed by Ankara, started a war against Karabakh (Artsakh) in the morning of September 27. The Armenian side has reported deaths and injuries both among the civilian population and the military. Foreign and local journalists too have been injured in Azeri shelling of towns and villages.