The villages were destroyed Destroying , and from 600 to 700 ethnic Armenians , including women and children , were murdered Committing_crime by armed ethnic Azeri and Kurdish irregulars and Azerbaijani soldiers .

The clashes were not confined to the towns , and , according to Swietochowswki , citing Adducing Armenian sources 128 Armenian and 158 Azerbaijani villages were destroyed Destroying or pillaged Robbery , while the overall estimates of lives lost Earnings_and_losses vary widely , ranging from 3,000 to 10,000 , with Azerbaijanis suffering Confronting_problem higher losses , which stemmed Preventing_or_letting from Azeri mobs being organized Arranging poorly and Dashnaks on the Armenian side being more effective .

Armenian military commanders based in Nagorno-Karabakh 's capital of Stepanakert ( Azerbaijani : Xankəndi ) had been contemplating the capture of the town after Azeri shelling of Stepanakert .

Negotiation by Iranian premier Ahmad Qavam and diplomatic pressure on the Soviets by the United States eventually led to Causation Soviet withdrawal and dissolution of the separatist Azeri and Kurdish states .