Israel and Iraq confirmed the release of Elizabeth Tsurkov, a Russian-Israeli graduate student at Princeton who was kidnapped in Iraq in 2023 by the militant group Kataib Hezbollah.
Spy fiction thrives on vermismilitude — shy are so many writers so incompetent when it comes to naming foriegn characters?
Amid suffocating temperatures, the Iranian authorities are closing public offices and cutting water and electricity as the country struggles with an energy crisis.
Moscow wants victories before its Monday holiday.