Sources told Euronews that the missile was fired at Flight 8432 amid drone air activity above Grozny, the Chechen capital, citing a preliminary investigation. They said the pilot was blocked ...

For example, during the 1999 Chechnya War in the Caucasus Russian troops used firepower intensive tactics to take Chechen capital of Grozny. The Chechens were fighting from trenches and the rubble of ...

The Azerbaijan Airlines plane, an Embraer 190, crash-landed on Christmas Day as it flew to the Chechen capital Grozny in southern Russia. The Brazilian air force said in a statement that the data ...

Azerbaijan Airlines flight J2-8243 caught fire as it tried to make an emergency landing in Aktau, southwestern Kazakhstan, on ...

Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev has called on Russia to accept blame for a plane crash on Christmas Day that killed 38 ...

In trying to dissuade anyone from noting a “Chechen trace” in the events in Uzbekistan, Kadyrov made the connection even more ...

But he stopped short of taking responsibility. The flight was en route to the Chechen capital of Grozny when it crash landed Wednesday. The Kremlin said Ukrainian drones were attacking the area ...

Russia's leader apologises over the downing of an Azerbaijani plane in Russian airspace - without directly taking blame.

The probe into the Azerbaijan Airlines crash in Kazakhstan is examining the conduct of air traffic controllers after the ...

An Azerbaijani minister suggested Friday that an airliner that crashed this week was hit by a weapon, citing expert analysis ...

Russia won't say if it mistakenly downed an Azerbaijani plane on Christmas. But it acknowledges the crash came amid a ...