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

A CHILLING audio clip has emerged revealing the moment Russians shot down a passenger plane on Christmas that left 38 people ...

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

Russian airport on flight path was shut. Aktau is on the opposite shore of the Caspian Sea from Azerbaijan and Russia. Commercial aviation-tracking websites tracked the flight flying north on its ...

On Dec. 25, an Embraer 190 plane, operating as Azerbaijan Airlines Flight J2-8243 from Baku, Azerbaijan, to Grozny, Russia, crashed near Aktau International Airport in Kazakhstan.The crash claimed ...

Ellie Cook is a Newsweek security and defense reporter based in London, U.K. Her work focuses largely on the Russia-Ukraine war, the U.S. military, weapons systems and emerging technology. She ...

Russia's civil aviation authority, Rosaviatsia, initially said it appeared the pilots diverted to Aktau after a bird strike. Later, Russian and Azerbaijani officials suggested the plane had been ...

The rift, provoked by the deaths of two ethnic Azerbaijanis in Russian custody, was the latest in a series of spats that ...

Russia's civil aviation authority, Rosaviatsia, said that preliminary information showed that the pilots diverted to Aktau after a bird strike led to an emergency on board.

Azerbaijani media said police in the capital of Baku searched the offices of Russia's state-funded news outlet Sputnik, amid ...