Russia’s president is said to have blamed birds or a Ukrainian drone for a Dec. 25 crash of an Azerbaijani plane. Azerbaijan ...

Russia’s failure to let the plane land and its refusal to take responsibility for the crash are upsetting a key partner.

Azerbaijan’s president said Russia shot down a passenger airliner, accusing Moscow of trying to cover up the issue for days.

Azerbaijani leader Ilham Aliyev is demanding answers, saying Vladimir Putin's latest apology "isn't enough" and that Moscow ...

Aliyev on Monday again accused Russia of a “cover up,” saying the “focus on absurd versions” of the crash has ignited ...

Azerbaijan and Russia's relations had been moving in a positive direction. The downing of Flight 8243 could jeopardize that.

In the crash’s aftermath, Azerbaijan has unleashed rare and stinging criticism of Russia, with the country’s president saying ...

Two U.S. military officials told NBC News that they had intelligence indicating that Russians may have misidentified the ...

The people on board were nationals from Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Russia. Azerbaijan's Foreign Ministry said the aircraft was directed to Aktau "due to an emergency landing ...

A billionaire former banker and 15 other ex-officials in the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region which Azerbaijan retook in ...

More than 30 passengers are dead after an Azerbaijan Airlines flight crashed near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan on Wednesday, and aviation and Ukrainian officials are placing the blame for the ...

Europe warns its airlines to stay away through next summer, as Ukraine turns skies of western Russia into a battlefield.