President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia told the Azerbaijani leader, Ilham Aliyev, in a phone call, “that the tragic incident took place in Russian airspace.”
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Takeaways From a Times Correspondent’s Return to Afghanistan
Here’s what he found.
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Here’s what he found.