A water-bombing plane was missing and feared to have crashed in Australia's southeast on Thursday, as firefighters battled a new outbreak of bushfires whipped up by scorching temperatures and strong winds. At least seven blazes were declared emergencies, including one in the Snowy Monaro...

Iran's civil aviation authority confirmed two missiles were fired at a Ukrainian airliner that was brought down earlier this month, in a preliminary report posted on its website late Monday. "Investigators... discovered that two Tor-M1 missiles... were fired at the aircraft," it said,...

Russian forces carried out fresh airstrikes on a de-escalation zone in northwestern Syria, killing at least nine civilians, local sources said on Monday. According to the Syrian opposition aircraft observatory, Russian warplanes targeted the rural areas of the northwestern...

Iranian artists, athletes and media personalities have lent their voices to anti-government protests in the Islamic republic over the accidental downing of a passenger plane that killed 176 people. Among them have been actors vowing to boycott a film festival, a star volleyball player who...