They say that the war will end soon. They say that 80 percent of Iran's rocket launchers have been destroyed, and we want to get to 95%. Israeli officials say it may take a couple of days- the USA says maybe longer, but not far off. That's what they say. On Facebook, people who hate Israel say that Iran has destroyed us. They say that Tel Aviv is under rubble, or on fire, and Ben Gurion is experiencing a mass escape of Israelis who are fleeing the country. That's what they say. They say that...

The siren stops, and for a few seconds, no one moves. Sometimes when it starts, you walk slowly toward the shelter, gathering what you may need - your phone that won’t stop blaring, a water bottle, your baby, extra diapers, a snack for the kids, the dog. You already knew it was coming. The alert had sounded first, the one that makes it feel like the end of the world. But you’ve heard it hundreds of times now. You know the drill. Sometimes it happens in the middle of the night. You curse to...

Members of the Iranian women’s national soccer team cannot go home for fear of being imprisoned or k*lled by their own government. As a form of protest, Iranian women's national football team players Fatemeh Pasandideh, Zahra Ghanbari, Zahra Sarbali, Atefeh Ramazanzadeh, and Mona Hamoudi, refused to sing the IRGC national anthem in the tournament opener. As members of the IRGC were part of their delegation in Australia, it seems they were forced to sing the anthem at subsequent tournaments....