US Defence department confirmed that two airbases hosting US troops in Iraq -- Irbil and Al Asad -- were attacked with more than a dozen ballistic missiles.
The US Navy shot down the Iran Air passenger plane in July 1988; six months later a Pan American flight from London to New York was bombed over Lockerbie in Scotland.
The Congress passed the abuse of power article, one of the two articles of impeachment, on a 230-197 vote while the obstruction of Congress article was passed by 229-198.