NATO Shoots Down Iranian Missile Headed for Turkey

This post has been updated with additional information on ships in the Eastern Mediterranean.  NATO assets shot down an Iranian ballistic missile headed for Turkey, alliance officials said Wednesday. “A ballistic munition detected to have been launched from Iran and, after passing through the airspace of Iraq and Syria, directed towards Turkish airspace, was timely engaged and neutralized by NATO air and missile defense assets deployed in the Eastern Mediterranean,” reads an English-language statement from the Turkish Defense Ministry. “The munition fragment that fell in the Dörtyol district of Hatay was identified as belonging to the air defense interceptor used