The death toll from the crash of a passenger plane in Taiwan rose to 31 Thursday, as search and rescue operations continued for 12 people still missing. Internet video showed the twin-engine TransAsia plane moments after takeoff from Taipei’s Songshan airport on Wednesday, bound for Taiwan’s outlying Kinmen islands. The plane’s left wing, perpendicular to […]
TAIPEI—Rescue workers in Taiwan have used a crane to lift part of the wreckage of a TransAsia passenger plane that crashed outside of Taipei, killing at least 25 people and leaving nearly 20 others missing in shallow water. Rescuers in boats surrounded the partially submerged, upside-down plane and pulled at least 15 of the passengers […]
Jordan’s King Abdullah vowed a “relentless” war against Islamic State militants on their own territory on Wednesday. Abdullah’s remarks came a few hours after Jordan executed two militants at dawn Wednesday, responding to the Islamic State group’s gruesome killing of a Jordanian pilot captured after his plane went down during a mission targeting the fighters […]
A message appeared on the Internet on Tuesday, possibly from ISIS, stating that Japanese journalist, Kenji Goto, and Jordanian pilot, First Lt. Mu’ath al-Kaseasbeh, have less than “24 hours left to live,” unless the Iraqi woman, Sajida al-Rishawi, one of the deadly 2005 attackers that ended the lives of 60 people, is released and set […]