Iraq’s embattled Nouri al-Maliki came to Syria on Monday on his first visit here as prime minister amid efforts to garner neighbors’ support for curbing violence at home.

Iraqi officials say a roadside bomb has killed the governor of the southern Shi’ite majority province of Muthanna.

Commander of the Islamic Republic’s air force General Ahmad Mighani here Sunday said that his country would soon test a domestically-manufactured training jet called “Ya Hossein”.