80 killed in Iranian plane fire
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An Iranian passenger plane caught fire   after its tire burst on landing at an airport in Iran's   northeastern city of Mashhad on Friday, killing at least 80   people, state television and officials said.
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About 80 Taleban are killed in a battle with US-led coalition forces in Afghanistan, coalition officials say.
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PATTANI, THAILAND, OCTOBER 26 : Almost 80 people died in military custody in southern Thailand, suffocated while being transported in trucks to Army barracks after a violent demonstration by Muslims, officials said on Tuesday.
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TEHRAN, Sept. 1 -- An Iranian passenger plane skidded off the runway while landing and raked its wing along the ground, sparking a fire that killed 29 of the 148 people aboard Friday in the latest deadly crash of a Russian-made aircraft.
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An Iranian military plane crashed shortly after takeoff in Tehran early Monday, state-run IRINN television reported, killing 38 servicemen.
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Eighteen people are killed in a bomb attack near a bus in the south-eastern Iranian city of Zahedan, reports say.
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LONDON - A Syrian military installation rocked by an explosion in July was being used to develop chemical weapons, and Iranian engineers were among those killed, a defense publication reported yesterday.
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Iranian police killed 12 armed rebels in clashes in a southeastern region on Thursday, saying they had planned to detonate bombs in the country, state television reported.
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Thirty-eight people died and 200 were  injured on Monday when a faulty electrical heater started a  blaze in a Tehran mosque crowded with worshippers for a major  Shi'ite Muslim festival, Iranian state media reported.
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Iran must pay $2.65 billion to the families of the 241 U.S. service members killed in the 1983 bombing of the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut, a federal judge declared Friday in a ruling that left survivors and families shedding tears of joy.
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U.S.-led coalition forces killed about 80 Taliban fighters during a six-hour battle outside a Taliban-controlled town in southern Afghanistan on Saturday, the latest in a series of increasingly bloody engagements in the region, officials said.
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - A senior Iranian military official said yesterday that his country had drawn up plans to launch air strikes against Israel in case of war between the two countries, according to an interview published by an Iranian news agency.
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TEHRAN -- A fire raged through a crowded mosque in Tehran during evening prayers yesterday after a worshiper's veil caught the flames of a kerosene heater, killing at least 59 people and injuring more than 250, Iran's official news agency reported.
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A mosque in central Tehran has caught fire, radio reported Monday, with reporters saying more than 100 people had been injured and taken to hospital.
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A number of Irish people are among those injured when a jet crashes in Thailand killing 88 people.
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A Iranian passenger plane made an emergency landing at an airport in Tehran on Tuesday but aviation officials denied an initial report that said it had done so after an engine caught fire.
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An Iranian military plane crashes while taking off from Tehran airport, with 38 people reported dead.