Lebanese Armenians scuffle with police during protest outside Azerbaijan embassy

Lebanese Armenians clash with police outside the Azerbaijani embassy in Beirut, Lebanon (Hussein Malla/AP)

Hundreds of Lebanese Armenians have scuffled with riot police outside the Azerbaijan embassy in northern Beirut during a protest against the Azerbaijani military offensive that recaptured Nagorno-Karabakh from the enclave’s separatist Armenian authorities.

Protesters waved flags of Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh and burned posters of Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the demonstration in the Ein Aar suburb of the Lebanese capital on Thursday.