Defense Minister Israel Katz says attacker intended to crash Israel-bound jet as investigators examine dramatic cockpit stabbing and emergency diversion to Saudi Arabia Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz on Wednesday described the violent cockpit incident aboard a Flydubai flight bound for Tel Aviv as an “attempted jihadist terrorist attack,” as authorities investigate an extraordinary midair emergency in which one pilot allegedly stabbed another before the aircraft rapidly lost thousands...

ISLAMABAD — Fourteen newborn babies died inside one of Pakistan's most prominent government hospitals after a devastating nursery fire, igniting national outrage and confronting Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif's government with a brutal question: How could some of the country's most vulnerable patients be allowed to die inside a major federal medical institution in the nation's capital? The August 26 fire ripped through the nursery at the Mother and Child Health Centre of the Pakistan Institute...

WASHINGTON — Another commercial tanker has been struck in the Strait of Hormuz as President Donald Trump reinforces American military power in the Middle East, underscoring the danger still hanging over one of the world's most important shipping routes even as regional governments scramble for a diplomatic breakthrough. The latest incident involved a tanker hit by an unknown projectile near Oman. The strike sparked a fire aboard the vessel, but the blaze was extinguished and all crew members...