Iranian state-run television says Iran has targeted a U.S. airbase in the Anbar province of western Iraq, after vowing to retaliate for the U.S. killing of Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani.
The president and some of his top lieutenants stated and restated on Tuesday that they feared a new attack was imminent and that they were justified in hitting the Quds Force leader.
The House is expected to vote on a War Powers Resolution that could force the president to pull back U.S. troops from hostilities with Iran. The catch: it would have to be veto-proof.
President Trump said on Tuesday that the U.S. has no intention of a quick withdrawal of its forces from Iraq, saying a quick departure "would mean that Iran would have a much bigger foothold" in Iraq.
After a 2012 gang rape on a New Delhi bus, India increased prison terms for rape. But ghastly cases still dominate the news, and most rape still goes unreported — and unprosecuted.
Mohammad Javad Zarif spoke to All Things Considered's Mary Louise Kelly about heightened tensions between Iran and the United States after the U.S. killing of Qassem Soleimani.
"We have not been exposed to this kind of emergency in 102 years," Gov. Wanda Vázquez says. The 6.4 magnitude quake left at least one person dead and knocked out most of the island's power.