“Don’t make the mistake of thinking that the longer you’ve been here the more you understand Iran. Most of our intelligence reporting has been wrong all along and not just since the revolution. Yours will be too. None of us understands the Iranians.” [ An Asian diplomat in Teheran.] “If we have to choose between
Rocky Myers, a Black man with an intellectual disability, is under sentence of death for murder, despite no evidence directly linking him to the crime scene and the retracted statement of a key witness. The judge imposed a death sentence against the jury’s wishes. Sign the petition and urge the governor of Alabama to grant
Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent. IDF spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari says the Lebanese Hezbollah terror group will face a “deadly” response if it continues to carry out attacks against Israel. “Hezbollah carried out a number of attacks yesterday in order to try to divert our operational efforts [away from
The Israel Defense Forces and Defense Ministry announced Monday that they were planning to evacuate civilians who live in towns up to two kilometers (1.25 miles) from the Lebanese border amid repeated rocket and missile attacks by Hezbollah and allied Palestinian factions in recent days. The ministry’s National Emergency Management Authority (NEMA) said the residents
Explainer After October 7 horror, Netanyahu’s cabinet is determined to bring Hamas down, but confounding questions will have to be answered Lazar Berman is The Times of Israel's diplomatic reporter It seems inevitable that Israel will embark on a massive ground operation in Gaza in the coming days, potentially its largest in four decades. Israeli
אַיֶּכָּה – Ayecha? WHERE… ARE… YOU?!? This past Shabbat, the Parsha (weekly Shabbat reading of the Torah, the first five books of the Hebrew Bible, called the Pentateuch from the Greek) was Breishit – Genesis – the first section of the first book of the Torah, about the creation of the universe and the planet
Click here to see ISW’s interactive map of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. This map is updated daily alongside the static maps present in this report.Click here to access ISW’s archive of interactive time-lapse maps of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. These maps complement the static control-of-terrain map that ISW produces daily by showing a
Once a recurring scourge that blinded, scarred and killed millions, smallpox was eradicated by a painstaking public health effort that saw the last “natural” infection occur in 1977. In what some consider an instructive moment in biosecurity (rather than a mere footnote), Janet Parker, a British medical photographer, died of smallpox the following year, after
The Iran Update provides insights into Iranian and Iranian-sponsored activities abroad that undermine regional stability and threaten US forces and interests. It also covers events and trends that affect the stability and decision-making of the Iranian regime. The Critical Threats Project (CTP) at the American Enterprise Institute and the Institute for the Study of War
While urban centers often capture the spotlight in discussions about political activism, rural areas also have their dynamics of resistance and civic participation.Rural women in Iran are a diverse and multifaceted group whose experiences and contributions often overshadow broader narratives about women in Iran. They play critical roles in their communities, yet their stories are