Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev received Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan in Baku on Saturday, the parties discussed the prospects of bilateral relations, the Azerbaijani presidential website said.

Leaked radio transcript details the tragic final moments of Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8243, which crashed near Aktau on December 25, killing 38 of the 67 passengers and crew. The transcript outlines a series of technical failures and emergencies that unfolded during what began as a routine flight from Baku to Grozny.

A billionaire former banker and 15 other ex-officials in the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region which Azerbaijan retook in 2023 went on trial on Friday in Baku in closed-door proceedings. The most prominent of the defendants,

Azerbaijan Airlines flight J2-8243 was traveling from the Azerbaijani capital Baku to Grozny, but was forced to make an emergency landing in Kazakhstan on Christmas Day. Thirty-eight of the 67 people on board died in the crash. “I can confidently say ...

Russia’s president is said to have blamed birds or a Ukrainian drone for a Dec. 25 crash of an Azerbaijani plane. Azerbaijan says Russian air defenses were at fault.

A Green Climate Fund official says it needs new sources of money but campaigners worry the move may undermine climate justice

Azerbaijan has refused to renew its cooperation agreement with The United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov said on Thursday, accusing Washington of using USAID to pursue its political agenda.

Axel Fischer and Eduard Lintner, former Bundestag deputies, were members of the German delegation to the international human rights organization to which Azerbaijan belongs. Both were implicated in the so-called Azerbaijani Laundromat —a Europe-wide lobbying and money-laundering scheme uncovered by OCCRP in 2017.

Azerbaijani leader Ilham Aliyev appeared to ratchet up tension in the South Caucasus by unexpectedly reviving a demand for extraterritorial rights on a land corridor connecting Azerbaijan proper to its Nakhchivan exclave across Armenian territory.

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After passing his early Friday medical, Ridle Baku was officially unveiled by his new club RB Leipzig early Friday afternoon. The 26-year-old re-unites with former VfL Wolfsburg chief personnel

LEIPZIG, Germany (AP) — Leipzig has signed wing back Ridle Baku from Bundesliga rival Wolfsburg after an injury to Benjamin Henrichs. Leipzig said Friday that the 26-year-old Baku had signed a 2½-year contract to 2027. He will be available for Sunday’s home game against Werder Bremen as the league restarts this weekend after its winter break.