Iran's Khamenei stands by Guard after unrest over downed plane
Iran's supreme leader threw his support behind the elite Revolutionary Guard in a rare sermon on Friday after their belated admission that they had accidentally downed an airliner triggered days of street protests. In his first Friday sermon in eight years, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei also ...
Iranian attack on base in Iraq wounded 11 American troops, U.S. reveals
At least 11 American troops were injured in an Iranian attack on an Iraqi base where American soldiers were deployed, U.S. Central Command said Thursday. The U.S. military had previously maintained there were no casualties. "While no U.S. service members were killed in the Jan. ...
World 'will not rest' until questions are answered on Iran jet's downing, Canada says
Canada's foreign minister on Thursday vowed to push Iran for answers about the mistaken downing of a passenger plane after the U.S. killed one of Tehran's top commanders. Iran had just hours earlier fired strikes against U.S. troops stationed in Iraq in retaliation for a ...
U.S. and Iraq resume joint military ops after Soleimani killiing
The United States on Wednesday resumed joint military operations with Iraq that had been put on pause after the U.S. drone strike that killed a top Iranian general in Baghdad, The New York Times reported. Two U.S. military officials quoted by the paper said the ...
Iran's president urges 'unity' after protests over jetliner downing
President Hassan Rouhani appealed Wednesday for "unity" and flagged the need for radical changes to the way Iran is run, after a wave of angry protests over the accidental downing of a Ukrainian airliner. The Kyiv-bound Boeing 737 was shot down in a catastrophic error ...
Regime change quest suspected as Trump seizes on new Iran protests
With presidential tweets in Persian and stern warnings to the regime, Donald Trump's administration is rallying behind the latest protests in Iran — and renewing suspicions that his real goal is regime change. Just a week ago, massive crowds took to the streets in Iran ...
Iraq's Moqtada Sadr calls for 'million-strong march' against U.S. presence
Firebrand Iraqi leader Moqtada Sadr called Tuesday for a "million-strong march" against the presence of U.S. troops in Iraq, days after parliament voted for their departure following Washington's killing of an Iranian general in a Baghdad drone strike. "The skies, land and sovereignty of Iraq ...
Canada's Justin Trudeau says plane crash victims would be alive if not for Iran-U.S. tensions
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the victims of the Ukrainian jetliner shot down by a missile that killed 176 people including 57 Canadians would be alive right now if tensions had not escalated in the region. Trudeau has been careful to avoid blaming U.S. ...
U.S. troops describe 'miraculous' escape at Iraqi base hit by Iranian missile attack
Troops at the Iraqi air base that bore the brunt of Iran's first direct missile attack against U.S. forces said they were shocked by its intensity and grateful to emerge unscathed. The scale of the damage at the Ain al-Asad base showed Iran's destructive capability ...
'Doesn't really matter' if there was an imminent threat from Qassem Soleimani, Trump says
President Donald Trump on Monday morning defended his decision to kill Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani, contending Soleimani posed an impending threat to the United States but also saying that was not important, given the military leader's history. "The Fake News Media and their Democrat Partners ...
Canadian exec blasts 'narcissist in Washington' over downed jetliner
The head of a Canadian food giant appeared to blame U.S President Donald Trump for the deaths of Canadians, including an employee's wife and child, in the downing of a jetliner in Iran. The Ukraine International Airlines Boeing 737 was shot down by a missile ...
