An Azerbaijan Airlines flight that crashed in Kazakhstan yesterday was downed by a Russian air defense system, four sources in Azerbaijan with knowledge of the investigation tell Reuters. An Embraer ...

Pope Francis called for “arms to be silenced” around the world in his Christmas address on yesterday, appealing for peace in ...

Such security fears, rather than any great love for the Kremlin, go a long way toward explaining Georgian Dream and Stoianoglo’s reluctance to antagonize Russia. “Nobody in the opposition is ...

President Vladimir Putin on Saturday apologised to Azerbaijan's leader for what the Kremlin called a "tragic incident" over ...

Officials in Russia and Kazakhstan have remained tight-lipped after the Azerbaijan Airlines flight crashed near the Kazakh city of Aktau with dozens of souls aboard. A Ukrainian national security ...

Russia reportedly attempted to make the Azerbaijan Airlines plane crash in to the sea by refusing permission to let it land after a missile attack before jamming its navigation system. A Russian ...

The Embraer passenger jet had flown from Azerbaijan’s capital Baku to Grozny, in Russia’s southern Chechnya region, before veering off hundreds of miles across the Caspian Sea. It crashed on ...

What were the initial interpretations of the disaster, however, which were put forward by media and officials in the three countries concerned - Russia, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan? The Kremlin has ...

The Azerbaijan Airlines plane that crashed near Kazakhstan's Aqtau on Christmas Day - while en route from Baku to Grozny in Russia - may have been "accidentally struck" by a Russian surface-to-air ...

The passenger jet flying from Azerbaijan to Russia crashed while trying to make an emergency near Aktau. The flight had been en route from Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, to Grozny in Russia ...

The plane was carrying 67 people from Azerbaijan, Russia, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. The flight went down in an area where Russia has frequently activated air defense to take out Ukrainian drones ...