It comes amid mounting allegations that the plane had been shot down by Russian air defenses attempting to deflect a Ukrainian drone strike.

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's Vladimir Putin on Saturday apologized to his Azerbaijani counterpart for what he called a “tragic incident." ...

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev accused Russia of executing an "absurd" cover-up after its air defenses allegedly "shot down" a passenger plane last week. Russian President Vladimir Putin ...

There are early indications that a Russian anti-aircraft system may have struck the Azerbaijan Airlines plane that crashed in Kazakhstan, a U.S. official told ABC News.

"We can say with complete clarity that the plane was shot down by Russia. (...) We are not saying that it was done intentionally, but it was done,” he told Azerbaijani state television.

On Oct. 4, 2001, a plane carrying passengers from Tel Aviv to Novosibirsk, Russia, was shot down over the Black Sea, killing 38 Russians and 40 Israelis on board. Nearly 10 days after the incident ...

echoing outside experts who say it was shot down by Russian air defense systems. Passengers and crew who survived the crash told Azerbaijani media that they heard loud noises on the aircraft as it ...

RUSSIA misidentified the Azerbaijan plane for a drone and shot it down with a missile, US intelligence believes. The Christmas Day disaster saw the aircraft explode into a fireball near the city ...

The crash on Wednesday killed 38 of 67 people on board Russian President Vladimir ... "We can say with complete clarity that the plane was shot down by Russia,” he told Azerbaijani state television.

Putin’s apology came as allegations mounted that the plane had been shot down by Russian air defenses attempting to deflect a Ukrainian drone strike near Grozny, the regional capital of the ...

“We can say with complete clarity that the plane was shot down by Russia. (…) We are not saying that it was done intentionally, but it was done,” he told Azerbaijani state televisio ...