All six crew members of a KC-135 refueling aircraft supporting operations against Iran are dead after their plane crashed in western Iraq, the U.S. military said Friday.
The U.S. Central Command, which oversees the Middle East, said the crash followed an unspecified incident involving two aircraft in “friendly airspace,” and that the other plane landed safely.
A man with a rifle who crashed into a large Michigan synagogue in what federal officials say was an attack had lost four family members in an Israeli airstrike in his native Lebanon last week, an official said Friday.
Ayman Mohamad Ghazali, 41, a naturalized U.S. citizen born in Lebanon, was killed by security after ramming into Temple Israel near Detroit and driving down a hallway in a vehicle that then caught fire, according to authorities.
None of the roughly 140 people inside the synagogue were injured, officials said.
The National Weather Service has warned that a major winter storm will move across the Upper Midwest late Saturday into Sunday.
Heavy snow accumulation between one to two feet is expected. The combination of heavy snow and gusty winds will reduce visibility and create periods of blizzard conditions on Sunday across western and southern Minnesota.
Kayla Osiecki can be reached at osie4769@stthomas.edu.
