BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Iran has retaliated against the US with missile strikes on American military targets in Iraq. The attacks Tuesday night were in direct response to the killing of top Iranian Gen. Qassim Soleimani, who was considered by many in Washington to be a terrorist. He was killed in US airstrikes near Baghdad International […]
TEHRAN, Iran. — Iran’s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif called US President Donald Trump’s decision to order the drone strike that killed the country’s top military commander an act of “state terrorism” in an interview with CNN Tuesday. Zarif said the Trump administration’s decision to abandon the nuclear deal Tehran negotiated with world powers and embrace hardline policies […]
SYDNEY, Australia. — The contrast in two satellite images, taken six months apart, provides one more chilling portrait of some of the worst fires Australia has faced in decades. Back in July, NASA snapped photos of an area near the southeastern tip of Australia which showed vast green areas, vibrant with life. Now, photographs taken […]
 STATEWIDE — Gas prices are sure to be affected by the recent news of the death of an Iranian general by U.S. missile strikes in Iraq. President Trump authorized the attack that killed Gen. Qassim Soleimani as he was traveling on a road close to the Baghdad International Airport. Petroleum analyst Patrick Dehaan with […]
WASHINGTON — A top Iranian general is dead. Gen. Qassim Soleimani was killed by US missile strikes in Iraq against terrorist groups backed by Iran. Soleimani was the leader of the Iranian government’s organization that supports militant and terrorist groups in the Middle East. Many in Washington are criticizing the Trump administration for authorizing the […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump ordered an airstrike at Baghdad International Airport that killed Qasem Soleimani, a key Iranian military commander, in a “decisive defensive action to protect US personnel abroad” that was intended to deter “future Iranian attack plans,” the Pentagon confirmed Thursday. Soleimani — the head of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Quds […]
NEW TAIPEI CITY, Taiwan. — Taiwan’s top military official was among eight people killed on Thursday when their Black Hawk helicopter crashed in mountains in the north of the island. Gen. Shen Yi-ming, 62, the Taiwan military’s chief of general staff, was en route to visit troops when the UH-60M helicopter disappeared from radar near […]
LONDON — Two of the United Kingdom’s leading financial institutions are being caught up in the political fallout from months of pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong. Protesters in the former British colony attacked some branches of HSBC this week and daubed red paint on a pair of bronze lions outside the bank’s Hong Kong headquarters. HSBC, the largest bank […]
 BAGHDAD, Iraq. — Protesters attempted to storm the US embassy in Baghdad on Tuesday, scaling the walls and forcing the gates of the compound, as hundreds demonstrated against American airstrikes on an Iran-backed militia group in Iraq. Hundreds of pro-Iranian protesters marched through an area of the Iraqi capital that is usually restricted, with […]
SYDNEY, Australia — Australian officials are pushing ahead with Sydney’s New Year’s Eve fireworks display despite more than a quarter of a million people signing a petition calling for the event to be scrapped. The Change.org petition said the funds that would normally be spent on the dazzling firework display should be redistributed towards the firefighting […]
