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 ...

Russia’s federal air transport regulator states that the Azerbaijan Airlines Embraer 190 which crashed after diverting to Aktau had made two unsuccessful attempts to land at Grozny, the flight ...

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

The jet was flying from Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, to Grozny, in Russia’s Chechnya republic. At the same time, drone strikes were taking place around Grozny and Russian air defense systems ...

Dmitry Yadrov, the chief of Rosaviatsia, Russia's Federal Air Transport Agency, said Friday that a Ukrainian drone attack was underway in Grozny, the regional capital of the Russian republic of ...

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

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." ...

The doomed Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8243 was heading on Wednesday from Azerbaijan’s capital of Baku to Grozny, the regional capital of the Russian republic of Chechnya, when it turned toward ...

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

"The readout said Russia has launched a criminal probe into the incident, and Azerbaijani state prosecutors have arrived in Grozny to participate. The Kremlin also said that "relevant services ...