Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said on Sunday that the Azerbaijan Airlines plane that crashed this week was shot down by Russia, albeit unintentionally, and criticized Moscow for trying to "hush ...

Allegations mounted that Russian air defenses shot down the plane while attempting to deflect a Ukrainian drone strike.

The flight was en route from Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, to Grozny in Russia's Chechnya region but was diverted to the Russian city of Makhachkala, about 100 miles east of Gronzny ...

Speaking to RFE/RL at Baku airport, Vugar Ismayilov said passenger Habib Ismayilov was traveling on Flight J2-8243 bound for Grozny for work and "didn't really want to go." ...

Vladimir Putin has apologised for the Azerbaijan Airlines crash but stopped short of accepting responsibility for what he ...

"No one claims that it was done on purpose," an Azerbaijan official told Reuters. They added their government "expects the ...

Azerbaijan Airlines' Embraer 190 was en route from Azerbaijan's capital of Baku to the Russian city of Grozny in the North Caucasus on Wednesday when it was diverted for reasons yet unclear and ...

The passenger jet was en route from the Azerbaijani capital Baku to Grozny in Russia. The plane went down near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan after being diverted due to fog. The Embraer 190 ...

Preliminary results from an investigation into the crashed Azerbaijan Airlines flight has pointed to the plane experiencing "external physical and technical interference", the airline has said. Thirty ...