"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 ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin apologized but did not assume responsibility. Azerbaijan's president Ilham Aliyev has alleged that the plane that crashed in Kazakhstan, claiming 38 lives ...

MOSCOW — Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev said Sunday that the Azerbaijani airliner that crashed last week was shot down by Russia, albeit unintentionally, and criticized Moscow for trying ...

He said he regretted that “some circles” in Russia had tried to “hush up” the truth about the crash of the Azerbaijan Airlines plane by sowing false narratives about its causes.

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 ...

Russia accidentally downed an Azerbaijan Airlines flight on Christmas Day and then attempted to cover it up, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev claimed Sunday, though the cause of the deadly crash ...

Neither party has released details of their conversation. Crew members and survivors of the Azerbaijan Airlines Embraer 190-passenger jet say they heard at least one loud bang before the aircraft ...

0:36 Azerbaijani president blames Russia for fatal Kazakhstan plane crash Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev said Sunday that the Azerbaijani airliner that crashed last week was shot down by ...

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

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.