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As Trump justifies Iran war, goals and timeline keep shifting

As Trump justifies Iran war, goals and timeline keep shifting

From initial hints of regime change to a focus on nuclear and missile threats, the mission’s scope appears fluid and its duration remains uncertain

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The Times of Israel

Reuters

Dressed-down Purim parties move to bomb shelters under threat of missiles

Dressed-down Purim parties move to bomb shelters under threat of missiles

As scroll is read aloud in Tel Aviv parking garage, sheltering father says war with Persia’s modern-day successor feels like Book of Esther plot...

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The Times of Israel

Melanie Lidman

Netanyahu: Iran’s nuclear program would have been ‘immune within months’ absent war

Netanyahu: Iran’s nuclear program would have been ‘immune within months’ absent war

PM says US-Israeli campaign will be ‘swift, decisive,’ as JD Vance says goal is to change Iran’s ‘mindset’; Witkoff says Iranians boasted in...

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The Times of Israel

Jacob Magid

Sisi Panics: Iran War Threatens to Bankrupt Egypt’s Regime

Abdel Fattah el-Sisi is panicking. Behind the gilded doors of his multi-billion-dollar New Administrative Capital, Egypt’s president is working the...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Amine Ayoub

The other Home Front

The Home Front Command sends alerts. It tells us how many seconds we have to reach shelter. It reminds us to keep water nearby. It has infographics....

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

SoftBank’s Ohio power plant delivers an AI sticker shock

SoftBank’s Ohio power plant delivers an AI sticker shock

U.S. President Donald Trump famously likes to build big things — or at least have others build big things to which he can attach his name. True to...

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The Japan Times

Liam Denning

The martyrdom of Imam Khamenei and the revolution that no empire will be able to destroy

The martyrdom of Imam Khamenei and the revolution that no empire will be able to destroy

The martyrdom of Imam Seyyed Ali Khamenei does not represent the end of an era, but the transformation of the Islamic Revolution into an even deeper,...

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Middle East Monitor

Sayid Marcos Tenorio

AI leaders may spend billions only to lose the market

AI leaders may spend billions only to lose the market

I recently asked Claude to help me think through the structure of my next book. I already knew where the weak point was — I just wanted to see what...

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The Japan Times

Gautam Mukunda

Key US primaries in Texas and North Carolina feature Iran, Israel and Hitler’s gun

Key US primaries in Texas and North Carolina feature Iran, Israel and Hitler’s gun

Trump’s bombing of Islamic Republic gives group opposed to pro-Israel spending first big chance to flex its power, as AIPAC’s brand seen as...

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The Times of Israel

Andrew Lapin

Give Credit Where Credit Is Due

There is a rabbinical statement made in the Talmud that says, “Anyone who says what he learned in the name of the one he heard it, brings redemption...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Kenneth Cohen

How Russia could benefit from the US-Israeli war on Iran

How Russia could benefit from the US-Israeli war on Iran

The US-Israeli attacks on Iran and the assassination of Supreme Leader Ayotallah Ali Khamenei have caused a measure of discomfort in Moscow. Some...

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Al Jazeera

Leonid Ragozin

A Tale of Two Operations: A Complete Mockery of the Just War tradition and International Law

A Tale of Two Operations: A Complete Mockery of the Just War tradition and International Law

A Tale of Two Operations: A Complete Mockery of the Just War tradition and International Law Operation Lion’s Roar and Operation Epic Fury are...

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New Eastern Outlook

Pranay Kumar Shome

Syria–Israel Peace: A Regional Shift

The prospect of a peace agreement between Syria and Israel represents a profound transformation in the structure of regional relations after years of...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Rami al dabbas

Nema pomlad v mednarodnem letu kmetic

Nema pomlad v mednarodnem letu kmetic

Zadnja organizacija, ki jo razumna oseba citira ob začetku nove svetovne vojne, je Organizacija združenih narodov, a glede na trenutni potek...

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Dnevnik

Nataša Kramberger

Here We Go Again

It seemed almost inevitable. The Ayatollahs continued to denigrate Israel and the USA, calling us the ‘Little Satan’ and the ‘Big Satan’...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Dorothea Shefer-Vanson

Asia's dollar dilemma

Asia's dollar dilemma

Due to the technical or legal reasons, readability mode is not available for this article. Thank you for your kind understanding.

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Nikkei Asian Review

James David Spellman

Cynická obluda: Víťazný február 2026

Tešíte sa, občania, ako sme to tým kapitalistom zasa ukázali, čo?

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SME.sk

Cynická Obluda

A Golden Calf with a Vintage Sunburst Finish

A Golden Calf with a Vintage Sunburst Finish

When I became Bar Mitzvah, the big day finally arrived. Not the aliyah.Not the speeches.Certainly not the fountain pen. Anyone who knows me knows...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Sam Cohen

In Jerusalem’s Katamon neighborhood, levelheadedness and levity prevail as rockets fly

In Jerusalem’s Katamon neighborhood, levelheadedness and levity prevail as rockets fly

Amid Purim preparations, residents express optimism over ongoing war with Iran as they enjoy the pleasant weather between scattered showers of...

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The Times of Israel

Zev Stub

‘You are safe!’: Kuwaitis seen helping US fighter pilot after plane shot down

‘You are safe!’: Kuwaitis seen helping US fighter pilot after plane shot down

After three American F-15s spiraled earthward over Kuwait in friendly-fire incidents, footage shows man asking downed pilot if she is okay, saying:...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

How does World Baseball Classic Eligibility Work?

Many fans ask: How are players eligible for Team Israel if they weren’t born in Israel or don’t currently hold Israeli passports? On Team Israel...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Wesley seidner

Iran soccer team’s 2026 World Cup place in US put in doubt by Middle East war

Iran soccer team’s 2026 World Cup place in US put in doubt by Middle East war

FIFA has Iraq next in line should the Islamic Republic withdraw, in which case it would be fined and forego at least $10.5 million from the global...

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The Times of Israel

Graham Dunbar

South Korea’s MIC Moves to Europe

South Korea’s MIC Moves to Europe

South Korea’s MIC Moves to Europe Presidents change, but South Korea’s path towards acquiring NATO weapons remains unchanged. South Korean MLRS...

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New Eastern Outlook

Konstantin Asmolov

Murder at Dawn: How the Death of Ali Khamenei Exposed the Agony of US Hegemony and Pushed Iran to the Nuclear Threshold

Murder at Dawn: How the Death of Ali Khamenei Exposed the Agony of US Hegemony and Pushed Iran to the Nuclear Threshold

Murder at Dawn: How the Death of Ali Khamenei Exposed the Agony of US Hegemony and Pushed Iran to the Nuclear Threshold Washington chose assassination...

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New Eastern Outlook

Viktor Mikhin

Peter Beinart and Hamas’s Professors

The most dangerous political movements rarely begin with mobs. They begin with professors. In 1930s Germany, scholars provided intellectual...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Robert Huebscher

The Middle East ensnares another U.S. president

The Middle East ensnares another U.S. president

Little about the U.S. attacks on Iran makes sense. I will leave it to regional experts to explain the rationale behind and the impact of the strikes...

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The Japan Times

Brad Glosserman

France to send anti-drone systems to Cyprus after British base attack – report

France to send anti-drone systems to Cyprus after British base attack – report

An Iranian Shahed drone crashed into the runway at RAF Akrotiri, a British sovereign base, in one of two drone incidents there on Monday

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The Times of Israel

Reuters

Vloga zdravilnih in aromatičnih rastlin v naravi in za človeka

Vloga zdravilnih in aromatičnih rastlin v naravi in za človeka

Danes zaznamujemo svetovni dan prostoživečih živalskih in rastlinskih vrst, ki letos v ospredje postavlja pomembno vlogo zdravilnih in aromatičnih...

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Dnevnik

Sta

WWII vet who shielded Jews at Nazi POW camp at gunpoint gets medal of honor

WWII vet who shielded Jews at Nazi POW camp at gunpoint gets medal of honor

Highest US military distinction given posthumously to Roderick W. Edmonds, who refused to let Nazis separate Jewish prisoners of war in 1945

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The Times of Israel

Ap

Hizballah’s Last Stand: Disarmament, Defiance, and Tehran’s Shadow Over Lebanon

Hizballah’s Last Stand: Disarmament, Defiance, and Tehran’s Shadow Over Lebanon

As Lebanon approaches parliamentary elections in May 2026, the country stands at a crossroads. Hizballah, the mighty image of Lebanese politics and...

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Middle East Monitor

Jasim Al-Azzawi

The right to intervene, for whom?

Where have all the moralizing voices gone? Where are the European leaders when it comes to defending the Iranian population, held in an iron grip by...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Francis Moritz

(PISMO BRALCA) Tudi zato bom volil Goloba

(PISMO BRALCA) Tudi zato bom volil Goloba

V neDelu 21. 2. 2026 me je pritegnil intervju z zdravnikom Erikom Brecljem, ki ga je opravila novinarka Agata Rakovec Kurent. Dr. Erik Brecelj je...

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Večer

Dr

The Expert Class of Endings

The Collapse of Standards I spent the last day scanning the global echoes. What disappoints me is not disagreement. It is the collapse of standards....

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Yochanan Schimmelpfennig

Beyond the Strike: What Victory in Iran Really Looks Like for the US

The world will soon be asking whether the attack on Iran worked. Every damage assessment, every cable news countdown clock, every retired general with...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Judah taub

The Strategic Stupidity of Iranian Leadership

Over the past few years, when discussion turned to Iran and whether they would or would not use a nuclear weapon if they had one, we often heard a...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Sherwin Pomerantz

From Nobel Peace Prize to complicity with terrorists

From Nobel Peace Prize to complicity with terrorists

This piece was co-authored by Alain Destexhe For over half a century, Doctors without Borders – Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) stood as a model...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Karine toledano

IDF sends troops further into south Lebanon and strikes Beirut amid Hezbollah attacks

IDF sends troops further into south Lebanon and strikes Beirut amid Hezbollah attacks

Navy strike on Lebanese capital kills top IRGC man; rockets fired at north, injuring one; Beirut doubles down on banning Hezbollah’s military activity

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The Times of Israel

Emanuel Fabian

The Optics of a Global War

Many of my Ukrainian readers and viewers today ask what guided me when I warned that if the Russian-Ukrainian war could not be stopped within four...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Vitalii Portnikov

Neplodnost in rak: skrite posledice okužbe s HPV, o katerih moški premalo govorijo

Neplodnost in rak: skrite posledice okužbe s HPV, o katerih moški premalo govorijo

Pri moških v zadnjih letih število rakov, ki jih povzroča humani papiloma virus, strmo narašča. Medtem ko se pri ženskah pojavnost okužbe z...

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Dnevnik

Ameriško veleposlaništvo v Riadu v plamenih, Iranci napadli tudi dve oporišči

Ameriško veleposlaništvo v Riadu v plamenih, Iranci napadli tudi dve oporišči

Vojna na Bližnjem vzhodu se stopnjuje ne zgolj z ameriško-izraelskimi napadi na Iran, temveč tudi z iranskimi napadi na sosednje države in...

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Dnevnik

Ag

Daily Briefing Mar. 3: Goals of war remain murky amid Trump administration’s mixed messages

Daily Briefing Mar. 3: Goals of war remain murky amid Trump administration’s mixed messages

US bureau chief Jacob Magid discusses the warning to US citizens to leave the Middle East, and what Netanyahu says is the White House’s reason for...

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The Times of Israel

Jessica Steinberg

Ungrateful

Ungrateful

Imagine living in a country whose ancestors endured the most horrific persecutions in human history. A people scattered across continents, hunted,...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Sabine Sterk

The insurance catastrophe

The insurance catastrophe Whole regions of the world are now uninsurable, bringing radical uncertainty to the economy. How do we fix the problem? A...

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Aeon

Gavin Evans

Nekdanji direktor Cie kritičen: Trumpovi napadi so katastrofalna napaka

Nekdanji direktor Cie kritičen: Trumpovi napadi so katastrofalna napaka

Nekdanji direktor ameriške centralne obveščevalne agencije Cia John Brennan je izjavil, da so vojaški napadi predsednika Donalda Trumpa na Iran...

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Dnevnik

Jk

The high price of political paranoia

The high price of political paranoia

In authoritarian systems, national interests and objectives often conflict with the leader’s beliefs, desires and insecurities. The more centralized...

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The Japan Times

Nina L. Khrushcheva

INTERVIEW/ Historian Masuda Hajimu: 'Social Warfare': An Undercurrent for Japan’s Road to War

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The Asahi Shimbun

The Asahi Shimbun

Lessons for Canada on the Iran War

Lessons for Canada on the Iran War

As Iran’s confrontation with Israel and the United States intensifies, the world is watching with bated breath. Missiles have crossed borders....

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Sheryl Saperia

Furniture giant Nitori plans to reduce prices amid inflation

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The Asahi Shimbun

The Asahi Shimbun

Netanyahu: Attack was needed since Iran was months away from making its nuclear, missile programs immune

Netanyahu: Attack was needed since Iran was months away from making its nuclear, missile programs immune

PM tells Fox News war won’t be ‘endless,’ denies Israel dragged US into conflict * Iran’s FM: Rubio admitted US ‘entered a war of choice on...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff