"We can clearly say today that the plane was shot down by Russia," President Ilham Aliyev said in a televised statement Issa Tazhenbayev/Anadolu via Getty Azerbaijan has formally blamed Russia for ...

Azerbaijan’s president Ilham Aliyev has accused Russia of shooting down a plane that crashed on Christmas Day, killing 38 people. The plane, an Embraer 190, was en route from Baku to Grozny when ...

Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev said on Sunday that the Azerbaijani airliner that crashed in Kazakhstan on Wednesday, killing 38 people, was shot down by Russia, albeit unintentionally.

Aliyev said Azerbaijan made three demands to Russia in connection with the crash. “First, the Russian side must apologise to Azerbaijan. Second, it must admit its guilt. Third, punish the guilty ...

Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev has demanded Russia apologize and compensate for the downing of an Azerbaijani plane over Kazakhstan last week, which resulted in many casualties. These ...

The president of Azerbaijan said Sunday that the passenger plane that crashed last week, killing 38 people, was unintentionally shot down by the Russian military. He also accused Russia of trying ...

Officials are trying to determine what caused the Azerbaijan Airlines plane crash in Kazakhstan on Christmas Day that killed 38 people on board, leaving 29 survivors. The president of Azerbaijan ...

AZERBAIJAN’S PRESIDENT Ilham Aliyev is flanked by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan at the COP29 climate conference in Baku, Azerbaijan, last month.

The leader of Azerbaijan criticized the Russian response to the crash of a passenger jet that Azerbaijani officials said had most likely been hit by Russian air defenses. By Anatoly Kurmanaev ...

Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev has accused Russia of accidentally shooting down an airliner on Christmas Day in a disaster that killed 38 people, and covering up the cause. “We can ...

Azerbaijan’s president on Sunday demanded that Russia admit responsibility for the incident that led to the Christmas Day crash of a passenger plane that killed 38 people and pay compensation to ...