Iraq's Ministry of Defense released dramatic aerial footage apparently showing airstrikes hitting an ISIS convoy on Tuesday. Hundreds of the group's vehicles were reported destroyed in two operations.
The investigators were able to successfully download information from the flight data recorder, and hope it will shed some light on the mysterious crash.
The probe continues into what officials say was a triple suicide bombing at Istanbul's Ataturk Airport Tuesday. Families are holding funerals for their loved ones — mostly Turks are among the dead.
David Greene talks to Syrian-American Dr. Zaher Sahloul, who was in Syria visiting Aleppo, meeting with the few physicians who have remained in the besieged city and their critically injured patients.
NPR's Kelly McEvers interviews Brett McGurk, special presidential envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL, about the fight against ISIS in the wake of the Istanbul airport attack.
U.S. airports have security checkpoints to keep weapons off airplanes. But airports have public areas where people shop, check bags and line up for TSA. The public areas create vulnerabilities.
NPR's Robert Siegel talks to the Soner Cagaptay, director of the Turkish Research Program at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, about Turkey's security policies and the lay of the land after Monday's attack.
Turkey is currently battling Syrian President Bashar Assad, the Islamic State and Kurdish separatists in southeast Turkey. All the battles are draining the country, and none is going well.
It's a disfiguring disease spread by the bite of sand flies. And there are fears that the Syrian refugee problem is triggering a dramatic increase in cases.