Babak Dehghanpisheh

TEL AVIV — A Flydubai pilot attacked his flight captain using a crash ax and tried to take control of the aircraft’s controls in an attempted terrorist attack, an official with the United Arab Emirates said Saturday.

British police said Friday that they had charged two Iranian nationals accused of plotting a terrorist attack against the Jewish community in Manchester on the eve of Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar.

In an exchange with news organizations, Iran’s Masoud Pezeshkian also described meeting twice with the Islamic Republic’s new supreme leader, who hasn’t been seen in public.

Masoud Pezeshkian’s appearance at the General Assembly was the first time the leader of a country at war with the U.S. has addressed the world body.

When pickup trucks full of armed rebel fighters were seen blazing through the streets of a historic port city in Yemen last week, it set alarm bells ringing across the globe.

The decision to grant Iranian leaders visas to travel to New York City for the annual meeting of global leaders comes seven months into the U.S. war with Iran.

Maryam Heydari Pouri was in the kitchen when the war showed up at her southern Iran home on July 16.

They’re the latest tit-for-tat strikes as Washington and Tehran lurch back toward fighting during more than six months of war.

A deadly wedding blast, which Iran says was a U.S. missile strike, tore through Kuhestak last week. NBC News visits the town and speaks to the father of the bride.

President Donald Trump announced Friday that the U.S. had entered into an agreement with Venezuela to take control of the country’s 65 billion barrels of oil reserves.

A magnitude-7.7 earthquake hit off the coast of Indonesia in the eastern Flores region, the United States Geological Survey reported on Friday.