Father’s Day Edition--Today In News: June 18, 2017

Today In News:

• Iranian Revolutionary Guards launched the mid-range ground-to-ground ballistic missiles from western Iran into the Deir al Zour region of eastern Syria, killing a "large number" of terrorists and destroying their equipment and weapons.

• One of President Donald Trump's personal lawyers said in television interviews on Sunday that the president was not under investigation for obstruction of justice, but when pressed on the assertion, said he was not certain.

• A U.S. warplane shot down a Syrian army jet in the southern Raqqa countryside. Washington is saying the jet had dropped bombs near U.S. backed forces and Damascus saying the plane was downed while flying a mission against Islamic State militants.

• Iraqi forces began storming the Islamic State-held Old City of Mosul, in an assault they hope will be the last in the eight-month-old campaign to seize the militants' stronghold.

• At least two people were killed in an attack by gunmen at a luxury resort outside Mali's capital Bamako popular with Western expatriates, the security ministry said, but 36 guests had been rescued.

• The official Korean Central News Agency said diplomats were returning from a UN conference on rights of persons with disabilities claiming that U.S. officials forcibly seized a diplomatic package from one of their delegations at New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport

• At least one person has been killed and eight others injured after a vehicle ran over pedestrians close to two mosques in a north London neighborhood. A 48-year-old driver of the van was detained by bystanders and later arrested by police after the incident in Finsbury Park.

• The Qatari defence ministry has announced the arrival of the first group of Turkish soldiers in the capital, Doha, to take part in joint military exercises.