Bordered by a humiliated Russia to the north and a defeated Iran to the south, Azerbaijan stands at a strategic crossroads, ...

Tensions are escalating between Russia and Azerbaijan, an oil-rich Caspian Sea nation, driven by a series of contentious ...

Azerbaijan has been pushing back against Russian dominance in the Caucasus region, seeking closer ties with Turkey and Israel ...

The statement read that in the current conditions, Russians should take into account the situation in the country when planning a trip there ...

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

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

Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was downed with a Russian surface-to-air missile, killing all 298 people aboard, as it flew over the area in eastern Ukraine controlled by Moscow-backed separatists in ...

On December 25, 2024, Azerbaijan Airlines flight 8243 crashed near Aktau airport in Kazakhstan.

Canada’s Safer Skies initiative is one such example that was in response to the shooting down of a Ukraine International Airlines flight PS752 in 2020 after take-off from Tehran.

BRUSSELS — The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has a message for airlines flying over Russia: Stop it. It’s a response to the Christmas Day crash of Azerbaijan Airlines flight 8243 — ...

An Azerbaijan Airlines plane that crashed, killing 38 people, was damaged while flying over Russia "due to shooting from the ground", the country's president has said.