Here are some of the most compelling photographs from the eighth week of 2025 from around RFE/RL's region. For more photo ...

A Russia-bound Azerbaijani jet that crashed in Kazakhstan in December had probably been damaged by "external objects" before it hit the ground, according to a report released Tuesday. The 53-page ...

The deadly Azerbaijan Airlines crash on 25 December was a direct result of damage to key flight systems caused by foreign objects, a preliminary official report released on Tuesday by the ...

While Azerbaijan sought to present itself as a global leader in climate action by hosting COP29, its environmental policies, pollution levels, and governance issues tell a different story.

Azerbaijan’s president, Ilham Aliyev, has launched a fierce verbal attack on Armenia, which he has called a fascist state. “Fascism must be destroyed,” he said in an interview on local TV ...

Azerbaijan's president Ilham Aliyev met with Israeli counterpart Isaac Herzog at the Munich Security Conference in February 2024. (credit: Office of the President of Azerbaijan) Even today ...

President Ilham Aliyev has rejected criticism over the arrests of journalists and said Azerbaijan has "a free press and a free internet." The BBC said in a statement that it had made the ...

Azerbaijan State Oil Company (SOCAR) has agreed to buy a 10% stake in Israeli offshore gas field Tamar from Aaron Frenkel, a source close to the matter has told "Globes." This represents over half ...

Azerbaijan’s president, Ilham Aliyev, has launched a fierce verbal attack on Armenia, which he has called a fascist state. “Fascism must be destroyed,” he said in an interview on local TV networks on ...

Broadcaster İctimai has announced the artist that will represent Azerbaijan at the 69th Eurovision Song Contest in Basel - it's the talented trio Mamagama. Mamagama will represent Azerbaijan at ...

The next day, the Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education (IMPACT-se) reported that Azerbaijan has become the first Muslim-majority country to include a ...

Azerbaijan Airlines flight J2-8243, which had been flying from Baku to Grozny, the capital of Russia’s republic of Chechnya, crash-landed a few kilometres short of Aktau airport in Kazakhstan on ...