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"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 ...

BAKU, Azerbaijan, December 31. In accordance with the plan approved by the Minister of Defense, Colonel General Zakir Hasanov, a series of events on the occasion of 31 December – Day of ...

BAKU, Azerbaijan, January 2. The Tariff (Price) Council of Azerbaijan has announced new electricity tariffs, citing the impact of rising natural gas prices on electricity production costs and the ...

Azerbaijan is observing a national day of mourning, with flags lowered across the country on Thursday. Traffic stopped at noon, and signals were sounded from ships and trains as the country ...

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LONDON -- Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said on Sunday that the Azerbaijan Airlines plane that crashed in Kazakhstan on Wednesday "was damaged from outside on Russian territory." The ...

Some shouted “banzai” — “long live” — while others waved small paper Japanese flags.

Shamsud-Din Jabbar flew an ISIS flag in the pickup truck he used to senselessly mow down partiers ringing in the New Year on Bourbon Street, the FBI said in a statement. “An ISIS flag was ...