Author: Deirdre Shesgreen and Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY

The U.S. airstrikes came after the U.S. military confirmed three coalition personnel in Iraq were killed after rockets hit Iraq’s Camp Taji base.

Vice President Mike Pence and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo land in Turkey to salvage U.S. interests in Syria.

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says he will, after all, meet with Mike Pence and Mike Pompeo when they arrive in Turkey on Thursday.

The Trump administration has used diplomatic pressure, legal action, economic sanctions – and hard cash – to try to get an Iranian oil tanker. It hasn’t worked.

Zarif is arelatively moderate Iranian politician, and he was the chief negotiator for the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers.

The legal case turns on factual questions about whenAhmed Ali Muthana’s diplomatic status ended– before or after his daughter was born.

A federal court ruled thatHoda Muthana, a woman who fled Alabama to marry an Islamic State fighter in Syria, won’t get a fast-tracked legal case.

CIA Director Gina Haspel is headed to Turkeyamid ongoing questions about Saudi Arabia’s role in the death of Jamal Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist and U.S. resident.