Tehran Reframes the Epaminondas Seizure as Punishment for Calling at U.S. Ports
Iran's Tasnim news agency converted Wednesday's tanker seizure into anti-U.S. enforcement, mirroring Trump's shoot-to-kill order with a doctrine of its own.
Yosef Stern
Bureau: Jerusalem
Second French Peacekeeper Dies of Wounds as Bint Jbeil Firefight Tests Three-Week Truce
Corporal Anicet Girardin's death and a six-killed Hezbollah firefight at Bint Jbeil land inside a week of the ceasefire extension Trump announced at the Oval Office.
Khamenei and Mojtaba Hold Saturday Silence as the Family Voice Gap Hardens Into Structure
No fresh statement from the Supreme Leader's office, no Mojtaba audio, no Friday sermon — Day Two of the family-voice silence becomes the war's open-ended timeline made structural.
Egypt's Foreign Minister Demands Full Israeli Withdrawal as Bint Jbeil Firefight Tests the Truce
Cairo demanded Israel pull back from all seized areas one week into the three-week extension — the first Arab-state pressure on Israeli compliance since the Oval Office signing.
CPJ Data Names IDF Most Lethal to Journalists of Any Government Since 1992
Sixty-four targeted killings since 2023 across Gaza, Lebanon, Iran and Yemen — the cumulative count now sits as the longest-running press-freedom-wartime architecture the paper tracks.