the city was named Shevchenko, in honor of the Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko, who was exiled to the area during his lifetime. Aktau is located on the Mangyshlak Peninsula and serves as the ...

A passenger plane carrying 181 people crashed at Muan International Airport in South Korea on Sunday morning, killing 85 ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin apologized to Azerbaijan's leader for what he called a “tragic incident” following the crash ...

Putin “offered his apologies” for the crash in a phone call to his Azerbaijani counterpart, Ilham Aliyev, the Kremlin said in ...

By Guy Faulconbridge, Andrew Osborn and Nailia Bagirova MOSCOW/BAKU (Reuters) -President Vladimir Putin on Saturday ...

Russia’s aviation chief says that a Ukrainian drone attack was under way in the region of Chechnya at the time an Azerbaijani ...

Allegations mounted that Russian air defenses shot down the plane while attempting to deflect a Ukrainian drone strike.

Azerbaijan's presidential office has given the clearest indication yet that the Embraer 190 which crashed in Aktau suffered considerable flight-control damage as a result of an external detonation in ...