Azerbaijan has been pushing back against Russian dominance in the Caucasus region, seeking closer ties with Turkey and Israel ...

Tensions are escalating between Russia and Azerbaijan, an oil-rich Caspian Sea nation, driven by a series of contentious ...

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

On December 25, 2024, flight number J2-8243, on board the Embraer 190 operated by Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL), crashed near the city of Aqtau in Kazakhstan. The flight out of Baku was en route to ...

Kazakhstan’s Transport Ministry has released a preliminary report on the crash of an Azerbaijan Airlines passenger jet that went down near Aktau in western Kazakhstan on December 25 while en route ...

Flight-data recorder traces from the Azerbaijan Airlines Embraer 190 illustrate the extent of damage with which the crew had to cope after the twinjet was crippled by an explosion in Russian airspace.

Preliminary findings from the Kazakh-led accident investigation commission state that the aircraft, arriving from Baku on 25 December last year, had sought vectoring for the approach to Grozny’s ...

Azerbaijan’s leader on Monday accused Moscow of carrying out a “cover up” over a passenger jet crash last month that claimed 38 lives, as relations sour between the two neighbors.

Then Russia also said Ukrainian drones targeting the Grozny area were a factor. A map shows the site of an Azerbaijan Airlines plane crash in Kazakhstan, on Dec. 25, 2024.

The Azerbaijan Airlines passenger plane was flying from the Azerbaijani capital, Baku, to Grozny in Russia's Chechnya region on December 25 when it was diverted and crashed in Kazakhstan, killing ...

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 ...