Ukrainian Jetliner Carrying At Least 170 People Crashes Near Tehran Airport The Ukraine International Airlines Boeing 737-800 crashed shortly after takeoff from Tehran's Imam Khomeini International Airport on Wednesday. Officials said the likely cause was mechanical problems. Scott Neuman
Mike Pompeo On Drone Strike That Killed Iran's Top Military Leader: 'We Got It Right' "Every target that's being reviewed, every effort that's being made, will always be conducted inside the international laws of war," Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said of potential strikes on Iran. Brakkton Booker
Stampede At Funeral For Iran's Soleimani Kills At Least 32, Injures Scores Iranian television said the stampede took place in Kerman, Soleimani's hometown, where the Quds Force commander slain in a U.S. airstrike last week was to be buried. Scott Neuman
WA lawmakers push back against Border Protection's detention of Iranian-Americans Washington Representative Pramila Jayapal and Governor Jay Inslee said they stand in solidarity with an estimated 150 Iranian Americans who were stopped at the US--Canadian Border this weekend. Esmy Jimenez
Trump Says He'll Target Iran's Cultural Sites. That's Illegal The Hague Convention, signed by the U.S., requires "refraining from any act of hostility" against cultural property. The Pentagon educates troops about their obligations to safeguard such sites. Laurel Wamsley
Iranians Vow Revenge Against U.S. As Slain General Is Mourned In Nationwide Funeral Caskets holding the bodies of Qassem Soleimani and others killed in a U.S. drone strike last week were paraded though the streets of Iran's cities as mourners chanted "death to America." Scott Neuman
American-Iranians say they were detained at the Canadian border. Border officials deny it. The Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) says around 60 Iranian-Americans were stopped at the U.S. - Canadian border this weekend. U.S. Border Patrol denies those reports. Patricia Murphy
Iran Abandons Nuclear Deal Limitations In Wake Of Soleimani Killing The announcement came in response to the U.S. drone strike that killed Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani. Tehran says it will continue to cooperate with international atomic monitors. Laurel Wamsley
Who Was The Iraqi Commander Also Killed In The Baghdad Drone Strike? Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis founded Kataib Hezbollah, an anti-U.S. insurgency movement responsible for numerous American casualties over the years. Matthew S. Schwartz
Qassem Soleimani Mourned By Thousands In Baghdad As U.S.-Iran Rancor Mounts As black-clad demonstrators grieved the Iranian general, who was killed in a U.S. airstrike earlier this week, Tehran and Washington waged a war of words — and others desperately urged restraint. Colin Dwyer
