The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry has asked Tehran to disclose all details related to its downed civilian plane last year. On the first anniversary of the downing of the plane,...
Ukraine urged Iran on Friday to deliver justice and pay full compensation to the families of those who died when a Ukrainian airliner was shot down by Iranian Revolutionary...
On the first anniversary of the Ukraine International Airlines plane crash which killed all 176 persons aboard, a UN human rights expert called for urgent measures to protect civilian...
Turkey has brought back suspected Gulenists from the Ukraine, Anadolu reported the Interior Ministry announcing today. In a statement, the ministry said that Salih Fidan and Samet Gure, who are the group's chiefs in the...
The Iranian government will pay $150,000 as compensation to the families of each of the 176 victims of the Ukrainian plane downed near Tehran airport in January, IRNA news agency reported yesterday. At...
Facebook on Friday said it has dismantled seven separate networks of fake accounts and pages on its platform that were active in Iran, Afghanistan, Egypt, Turkey, Morocco, Myanmar, Georgia,...
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Lebanon has requested Interpol issue international arrest warrants for both the captain and owner of the ship which is believed to have caused the 4 August Beirut blast, Agence France Presse...
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Ukraine Turkey's foreign minister extended condolences Friday to Ukraine following a military plane crash that killed 22 people, Anadolu Agency reports. "I share the sorrow of the families of those who...
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Analysis from the black boxes of a downed Ukrainian passenger plane shows it was hit by two missiles 25 seconds apart and that passengers were still alive for some...
Palestine, Azerbaijan and Ukraine congratulated Turkey on Saturday for its discovery of major natural gas reserves in the Black Sea, Anadolu Agency reports. Palestine's President Mahmoud Abbas congratulated Turkish President Recep...
The head of Israel's coronavirus task force has asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to ban an annual pilgrimage in which Hasidic Jews visit the central Ukrainian town of Uman...
Ukraine said on Friday that its first round of talks with Iran about the downing of a Ukrainian airliner shortly after takeoff in Tehran in January had been constructive,...
An Iranian delegation will arrive in the Ukrainian capital, Kiev, today to discuss compensation for the families of the Boeing 737 passengers which were killed by an Iranian missile...
Investigators examining the black boxes from the Ukrainian jet accidentally shot down by Iran have recovered its cockpit voice data, France's BEA accident investigation bureau said on Monday, reported...
Iran has sent the black boxes from a Ukrainian airliner that it had accidentally downed in January to France for analysis, a Foreign Ministry official said on Saturday. Some...
Iran has claimed the downing of Ukrainian passenger jet in January was due to a "misalignment" of the air defence system's radar, i24 News reported. The Iranian Civil Aviation...
The Ukrainian plane was shot down shortly after take-off in Tehran in January 2020.
France said on Friday it would download the black boxes from a Ukrainian airliner downed by an Iranian missile in January, easing a stand-off over where they should be...
Iran will send the black boxes from a downed Ukrainian airliner to France, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Monday, according to the official IRNA news agency....
Relatives of victims aboard the Ukrainian civilian airliner downed by Iranian missiles in January have claimed their loved ones' possession were "looted", in a press conference held online on...
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky said he wanted Tatar Muslims to feel that they were full fledged citizens of the country
Iran's aviation authority has agreed to send black boxes from a downed Ukrainian jetliner to Kiev for analysis, Iran's representative at the United Nations' aviation agency told Reuters on...
Canadian Foreign Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne on Wednesday urged Tehran to allow access to the black boxes from a Ukrainian passenger plane that was accidentally shot down over Iran in...
The black box of a Ukrainian passenger plane accidentally shot down over Iran last month is damaged but Iran will not hand it over to another country despite pressure...
Hardliners are set to tighten control of Iran this week in a parliamentary election stacked in their favour, as the leadership closes ranks in a deepening confrontation with Washington, Reuters...
Canadian lawyers, who previously successfully sued Iran, are seeking class action status in a lawsuit on behalf of victims aboard a Ukrainian plane shot down over Tehran last month,...
Grief-stricken relatives of passengers killed aboard an airliner shot down by Iran over Tehran last month are grappling in Canada with the daily challenges of long-distance funeral arrangements, empty...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has rejected Russia's annexation of Crimea and pledged to support the Ukrainian army with $200 million, Lebanese Al-Akhbar newspaper reported yesterday. The paper said...
Turkish and Ukrainian officials gathered in Ukraine's capital to address ways to enhance strategic cooperation in the defence industry, Anadolu Agency reports. The seventh edition of Turkey-Ukraine Defense Industry...
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January 22, 2020 |
Omer Demir On 11 January, Iranian senior leaders formally apologised for their "disastrous mistake" of shooting down a commercial airliner, flight 752, allegedly confusing it for a US cruise missile. "Our profound regrets,...