A film crew from CBC Azerbaijan has arrived in Aktau to shoot a documentary about the deadly AZAL plane crash, which took ...

Deaths in custody, media offices raided, and beaten and bloodied suspects paraded in court — relations between Russia and ...

Azerbaijani journalists have released a recording containing an order to open fire on an AZAL flight, which resulted in the ...

Azerbaijan's Interior Ministry told local media that seven people linked to a Kremlin-funded media outlet in Baku have been ...

On December 25, an Azerbaijan Airlines passenger plane crashed in Kazakhstan, killing more than half of the 67 people on board. The flight had been diverted to Aktau in the country’s west for an ...

Later, Russian and Azerbaijani officials suggested the plane had been rerouted due to fog or bad weather in Grozny. Then Russia also said Ukrainian drones targeting the Grozny area were a factor.

President Ilham Aliyev said Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8243, which departed from Baku on Wednesday morning with 67 passengers and crew members bound for Grozny in Russia, “suffered external ...

The plane was flying from Azerbaijan's capital, Baku, to Grozny when it turned toward Kazakhstan, hundreds of kilometers (miles) across the Caspian Sea from its intended destination, and crashed ...

The plane was flying from Azerbaijan’s capital, Baku, to Grozny when it turned toward Kazakhstan, hundreds of miles across the Caspian Sea from its intended destination, and crashed while making ...

The plane was struck by a Russian Pantsir-S air defense system and its communications were frozen by electronic warfare systems when approaching Grozny, one of the sources said.

Dmitry Yadrov, head of the Russian aviation watchdog Rosaviatsia, said the plane could not land at Grozny airport because of fog and Ukrainian drones. “The situation around Grozny airport at the time ...

Later, the Azerbaijani president’s office released its account of the conversation. According to its statement, Putin apologized for the fact that, on December 25, the plane traveling from Baku to ...