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Ukraine on Saturday demanded that Iran punish those guilty for the downing of a Ukrainian airliner and compensate victims while praising Tehran for cooperating with the “objective” investigation.

Taiwan’s presidential election entered its final day of campaigning with a mixture of angry allegations, calls for unity, and international tensions. Incumbent President Tsai Ing-wen of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) remains heavily favored to win, but Tsai herself advised supporters to “come together and never underestimate our rival,” meaning Kuomintang (KMT) candidate Han Kuo-yu.

President Donald Trump sent his greetings to North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un this week after the country’s communist regime held a series of mass rallies and celebrations to celebrate his 36th birthday. 

Sen. Mike Braun (R-IN) told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview Thursday that Democrats have displayed a hypocritical view of President Donald Trump’s foreign policy regarding Iran.

Cuba’s communist regime has urged its citizens to visit the Iranian embassy in Havana to sign a book of condolence for the late Iranian terror chief Qasem Soleimani following his assassination by a U.S. drone strike. 

Removing American forces from Iraq after the killing of Qasem Soleimani would likely damage Tehran’s interests, assessed Lee Smith.

According to the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) and two Iraqi officials, an airstrike conducted by unidentified warplanes struck positions in Syria near the border with Iraq on Friday, killing eight members of an Iran-backed Iraqi Shiite militia called the Imam Ali Brigades.

CBS News reported on Friday that Iranian “scavengers” have “scrubbed” the site where a Ukrainian passenger jet came down near Tehran before outside investigators could examine the evidence. “Virtually all debris” was removed before outsiders were allowed on the scene.

Civil Aviation Organization of Iran chief Ali Abedzadeh insisted Friday it was “obvious” an Iranian missile had not shot Ukraine International Airlines (UIA) Flight 752 out of the sky on Wednesday.

How can it be a “crossfire” situation when only one side was, you know, doing any firing that night?

Volodymyr Zelensky, the president of Ukraine, changed his tune from urging caution against “conspiracy theories” to asserting on Friday an Iranian missile shooting down Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 “is not being ruled out.”

TEL AVIV – President Donald Trump on Wednesday discussed “critical bilateral and regional issues” with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after an Iranian missile strike on U.S. bases in Iraq, the White House said.

The American civilian defense contractor whose murder by Iran-backed forces in Iraq sparked American retaliation was Nawres Waleed Hamid, a Muslim-American from Sacramento, California. He was laid to rest last Saturday.

British left-wing activists gathered in central London to denounce Donald Trump’s decision to kill Iranian terrorist mastermind Qasem Soleimani, calling the President a “monster” worse than Osama Bin Laden and others.

TEL AVIV – Rep. Ilhan Omar has come under fire over her hypocrisy in criticizing President Donald Trump for his “unmeasured response” in waging “economic warfare” against Iran by imposing new sanctions, while at the same time having no problem supporting sanctions against Israel. 

TEL AVIV – Israel’s Defense Ministry has made a “technological breakthrough” on a laser beam defense system capable of intercepting rockets, drones and anti-tank missiles, it announced Wednesday.

Pelosi wants to tie Trump’s hands with a resolution tto limit his war powers on Iran — right after he has used them to promote peace.

Army Green Beret Sgt. 1st Class Michael James Goble was buried Thursday, surrounded by several hundred family members and friends.

McClintock: the resolution “deliberately undermin[es] the position of the United States Government and the armed forces WE sent to Iraq – at a perilous moment.”

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau hinted on Thursday that the United States and Trump administration, specifically, could be partially responsible for the crashed Ukrainian plane that U.S. officials reportedly suspect an Iranian missile took down.

Muqtada al-Sadr, perhaps the second most influential Shiite leader in Iraq after Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, on Thursday urged Shiite militia forces to be “patient” and stand down because the “crisis is over” between the U.S. and Iran.

In one of the odder twists of the Taiwanese presidential election, representatives of the pro-China Kuomintang party (KMT) accused incumbent President Tsai Ing-wen of “sucking up to the Chinese Communist Party” while insisting it is unfair to describe the KMT as pro-China. 

The Iranian envoy to the United Nations said in an interview Thursday that Iran’s retaliation for the elimination of terrorist Qasem Soleimani was complete following the ballistic missile attack on American assets in Iraq this week and denied the Islamic regime is pursuing nuclear weapons.

The Chaldean Archdiocese of Erbil issued an impassioned plea for peace Thursday, insisting that the region is “tired of war” and its consequences.

House Democrats rejected a motion that would have praised the American military and reaffirmed the House’s opposition to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Force.

Army combat veteran and Congressman Max Rose has released a statement firmly opposing Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s War Powers Resolution.

New research by the Pew Research Centre has found that President Donald Trump holds broad support in both Nigeria and Kenya, although he is generally unpopular in other parts of the world. 

Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview Thursday that, despite the media’s portrayal of his comments, the “worst” military briefing he ever received was the deceptive briefing on the 2012 attack on the Benghazi consulate.

China’s regime is “metastasizing right in front of our eyes” and will match U.S. military spending in 15 to 20 years, said Henry Olsen.

Leaders of the U.S. Bishops Conference (USCCB) have issued a statement calling for a return to peace amid growing tensions between Iran and the United States.

TORONTO (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday evidence indicates an Iranian missile downed a Ukrainian jetliner late Tuesday and that the strike “may have been unintentional.”

A new U.S. government report states that the persecution of Catholics has worsened in China since the Vatican signed a provisional deal with the Communist Party regarding the naming of bishops.

“You know what bothers me?” Trump asked. “When I see Nancy Pelosi trying to defend this monster.”

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Kelly Craft wrote a letter to the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday stating the U.S. is “ready to engage without preconditions in serious negotiations with Iran, with the goal of preventing further endangerment of international peace and security or escalation by the Iranian regime.”

Authorities in China’s coastal province Jiangsu declared on Tuesday that just 17 residents are living in extreme poverty, despite having a population of some 80 million people. 

Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) commander Abdullah Agrahi on Thursday vowed to take “harsher revenge” against American targets for the liquidation of IRGC Gen. Qasem Soleimani by a U.S. airstrike. Agrahi, like many other Iranian officials, evidently saw Tuesday night’s zero-casualty Iranian missile attack on Iraqi bases as insufficient, or as merely a taste of greater retaliation to come.