TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — A Ukrainian airplane carrying 180 passengers and crew crashed Wednesday near an airport in the capital, Tehran, state TV reported. There was no immediate word on casualties. The plane had taken off from Imam Khomeini International Airport, the report said. The crash is suspected to have been caused by mechanical issues, […]

IRAQ (AP) — The Pentagon is confirming that Iran has launched “more than a dozen ballistic missiles” at two targets hosting against U.S. military and coalition forces in Iraq. Defense Department spokesman Jonathan Hoffman says “It is clear that these missiles were launched from Iran.” He says the attacks “targeted at least two Iraqi military […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump and his top advisers are under pressure to disclose more details about the intelligence that led to an American airstrike that killed top Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani. Trump said Tuesday that his decision saved American lives and that members of Congress will get a briefing on the reasons for […]

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin traveled to Damascus on Tuesday for a meeting with President Bashar Assad, a rare visit that comes amid soaring tensions between Iran and United States following the U.S. drone strike that killed a top Iranian general. While the official statements made during the previously unannounced visit made […]

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s president said Tuesday that he won’t attend a commemoration in Israel to mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp because he was not asked to speak at the forum along with world leaders who include the presidents of Russia and Germany. President Andrzej Duda was […]

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — A stampede broke out Tuesday at a funeral for a top Iranian general slain in a U.S. airstrike, and at least 56 people were killed and more than 200 were injured as thousands thronged the procession, Iranian news reports said. The stampede took place in Kerman, the hometown of Revolutionary Guard […]

WASHINGTON (JNS) — The United States is planning to remove its troops from Iraq, according to an official U.S. letter on Monday. In it, U.S. Brig. Gen. William Seely, commanding general of the Task Force Iraq, informs the head of Iraq’s Joint Operations Command, Abdul Amir Yarallah, that U.S. troops would “be repositioning forces over […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump insists that Iranian cultural sites are fair game for the U.S. military, dismissing concerns within his own administration that doing so could constitute a war crime under international law. He also warned Iraq that he would levy punishing sanctions if it expelled American troops in retaliation for a U.S. […]

BERLIN (AP) — Police in western Germany shot and killed a 37-year-old man who allegedly tried to attack them with a knife. They are checking whether extremism was a possible motive for the attack, the German news agency dpa reported Monday. The man, whose name was not given, first used an unidentified object to attack […]

PARIS (JTA) — Several thousand people, many of them Jews, rallied in several cities in France to protest a court’s ruling not to try a Muslim man who confessed to killing his Jewish neighbor while shouting about Allah. Republique Square in Paris became crowded with protesters over the ruling last month on the fate of […]