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In flare-up over Hormuz, a hint at US-Iran rollercoaster to come

Jun 29, 2026 |

By Scott Peterson

| The Christian Science Monitor

The United States and Iran late Sunday pulled back from their escalating attacks over the Strait of Hormuz, a flare-up that had tested a fragile ceasefire and called into question both sides’ desire to avoid a full return to battle.

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For Iran, a new ceasefire means big gains. But Trump’s war goals fall short.

Jun 18, 2026 |

By Scott Peterson

| The Christian Science Monitor

The ceasefire deal inked by the United States and Iran on Wednesday, aimed at bringing an end to their costly and destructive war, has been touted a strategic victory by the Islamic Republic – while coming up short on achieving U.S. goals articulated by President Donald Trump. The agreement grants Iran sizable economic incentives in exchange for opening the Strait of Hormuz and for Tehran’s assurances – as it has done for many years – that it will not develop a nuclear weapon.

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Caught between war and peace, Iranians live in limbo

Jun 11, 2026 |

By Scott Peterson

| The Christian Science Monitor

Before the war, Qeshm Island in the Strait of Hormuz was an Iranian holiday destination that offered boutique hotels, quaint cafés, and the embrace of a slower, disconnected island lifestyle. “Suddenly, we are living on the front line,” says one Qeshm guesthouse owner in a text message exchange, who could not be named for his security, as he prepared to leave the island Thursday after nine years. It had been another night of blasts and the buzz of drones and fighter jets. “It’s been a nightmare.

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After another round of retaliation, Iran and Israel say they will hold off for now

Jun 08, 2026 |

By Scott Peterson , Shoshanna Solomon

| The Christian Science Monitor

Iran and Israel renewed exchanges of direct fire overnight Sunday, effectively disrupting a fragile two-month ceasefire declared by President Donald Trump and risking a return to full-blown war. The complex chain of tit-for-tat military actions, in Lebanon, and then between Iran and Israel, presented another challenge for Mr. Trump, who repeated his claim on Sunday that a peace deal was within reach.

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Ceasefire in name only: Israel expands military campaign in Lebanon

Jun 01, 2026 |

By Scott Peterson

| The Christian Science Monitor

Israel further escalated its long-running war against Iran-backed Hezbollah militants in Lebanon on Monday. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered new airstrikes in Beirut’s Hezbollah-controlled southern suburbs, one day after Israel recaptured the 900-year-old Beaufort Castle in southern Lebanon.

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Iran’s economy was already struggling. The war has made it far worse.

May 21, 2026 |

By Scott Peterson

| The Christian Science Monitor

The economic agony felt by Iranians, after weeks of attacks by the United States and Israel, is measured in soaring prices, lost jobs, and an internet blackout that amplifies the uncertainty around what happens next. “We are hearing that the war is going to resume; this unhinged U.S. president has no idea what exactly he wants,” says Naimeh, a student counselor with green eyes and graying hair in Tehran’s middle-class Aryashahr district, who asked that only her first name be used.

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With viral ‘Lego’ videos, Iran stakes claim as a propaganda power player

May 20, 2026 |

By Scott Peterson , Caitlin Babcock

| The Christian Science Monitor

As part of an overwhelming flow of polished propaganda, Lego-style videos are pouring out of Iran. They’re saturating social media feeds throughout the United States and worldwide with anti-war, pro-Iran messages that cast President Donald Trump as a war criminal who has dragged America into a conflict that it can’t win, on Israel’s behalf. The stream of near-daily videos has brought the Islamic Republic’s point of view directly onto American computer and phone screens like never before.

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Under fire from Israel like never before, Lebanon’s first responders are determined to persevere

May 16, 2026 |

By Scott Peterson

| The Christian Science Monitor

The Lebanese paramedic makes the pilgrimage every day. He kneels with reverence as he delivers a message at the grave of his son, an assistant rescuer killed in late March by an Israeli drone. “You went as a hero, my child – you chose that way,” says Mohammed Suleiman, whispering the words of mourning.

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After massive Israeli attacks, how is Hezbollah still fighting?

May 07, 2026 |

By Scott Peterson

| The Christian Science Monitor

Each day, the Iran-backed Hezbollah militia uses social media channels to trumpet its steady stream of attacks against Israeli military forces now occupying southern Lebanon, and beyond, into northern Israel. The Hezbollah posts, some accompanied by drone’s-eye videos of its attacks, list precise timings and locations of the strikes, one after another, using a “swarm of loitering drones” or rocket salvos.

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Is our home safe? Is it rubble? For displaced Lebanese, anguished uncertainty.

Apr 30, 2026 |

By Scott Peterson

| The Christian Science Monitor

Displaced by war but hungry for home, Faiz Hilal’s family squeezed into their decades-old car and drove from relative safety in eastern Lebanon to their apartment near the southern Lebanese port city of Tyre – only to find their street wrecked by Israeli airstrikes. They were undeterred by the piles of rubble and mangled metal, and cleared a dust-free path through the ground-floor car park. They hung their washing lines, and made one room habitable for their family of six.

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Amid extended ceasefire, Lebanon assesses high cost of Israel-Hezbollah war

Apr 24, 2026 |

By Scott Peterson

| The Christian Science Monitor

Along Ain al-Mreisseh’s breezy waterfront avenue, which Beirut residents fill daily with walkers and runners breathing the fresh sea air, the neighborhood exudes a carefree confidence. “All the people here are friendly, and all are very calm. They walk their dogs and go to exercise,” says Abdallah Mdeik, the manager of an old six-story building, half a block up from the water.

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Amid ceasefire in Lebanon, a rush home – if it’s reachable and still there

Apr 20, 2026 |

By Scott Peterson

| The Christian Science Monitor

The 10-day ceasefire in Lebanon brokered by the White House after 46 days of war has, since Friday, lessened Israeli bombardments and lowered attacks by Iran-backed Hezbollah fighters. Lebanese residents reacted to the news with celebrations and flag-waving, then were on the move.

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In Iran, the regime has indeed changed: It’s less restrained, more hard-line

Apr 20, 2026 |

By Scott Peterson

| The Christian Science Monitor

Every night, thousands of fervent, flag-waving supporters of Iran’s Islamic Republic take to the streets to vent vitriolic rage at their American and Israeli attackers. They celebrate surviving 40 days of war, a fragile ceasefire, and now negotiations in which they believe Iran has the upper hand.

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Despite war, Iran’s machinery of intimidation keeps protesters at bay

Mar 31, 2026 |

By Scott Peterson

| The Christian Science Monitor

The video clip, taken one recent night in western Tehran, shows a man in plainclothes pointing an assault rifle with a green laser sight high up a tall residential building. From the upper floors, anti-regime chants are heard calling for the death of Iran’s new supreme leader, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Basij militia – the same forces that killed thousands of Iranian protesters during a crackdown in January.

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Iranian rulers fought to survive. They found leverage en route to an endgame.

Mar 24, 2026 |

By Scott Peterson

| The Christian Science Monitor

From his rostrum, Iran’s military spokesman adopted a decidedly mocking tone, ridiculing the American and Israeli enemy as “those who prefer fleeing over standing their ground, those same masters of consecutive defeats, who ... see fear in every one of their cells.” Then, Ebrahim Zolfaghari – wearing a camouflage Revolutionary Guard Corps uniform and sporting a trimmed black beard and slicked-back hair – switched from Farsi to English to bait President Donald Trump. “Hey, Trump.

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Why Hezbollah fighters are embracing an unpopular and costly war with Israel

Mar 22, 2026 |

By Scott Peterson

| The Christian Science Monitor

The Hezbollah special forces fighter could be any Lebanese man in Beirut’s southern suburbs. Stocky and with a reddish beard and short hair, he is clad in civilian clothes to avoid detection from the Israeli drones that fly constantly overhead. But this Hezbollah veteran is part of a leaner and more potent Iran-backed force that he says is committed to a long-awaited “final battle” against Israel – opening a second front as the United States and Israel attack Hezbollah’s patron, Iran.

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Caught between unremitting attack and unyielding regime, Iranians try to cope

Mar 17, 2026 |

By Scott Peterson

| The Christian Science Monitor

Every night, Iranian university student Alireza falls asleep staring at his mobile phone, desperate for news about how the joint U.S.-Israeli military onslaught is impacting his country and upending his life. And almost every night, the computer science major has nightmares about the risks and uncertainties of a war that has pounded Iran with more than 15,000 airstrikes in 18 days, with no end in sight.

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How Iran is trying to end war with US and Israel on its own terms

Mar 12, 2026 |

By Scott Peterson

| The Christian Science Monitor

After 13 days under relentless U.S. and Israeli attack, Iran’s military and security forces are degraded, its navy largely sunk, and its longtime supreme leader and top military officers assassinated. But the Islamic Republic shows no sign of collapse and refuses to capitulate.

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Scott Free: My honor came with layers of joy

Mar 12, 2026 |

By Scott Peterson

| Watertown Daily Times (Watertown, WI)

When the announcement came months ago that I would be inducted into the Wisconsin Newspaper Hall of Fame, I broke the news to both of my sons. Immediately, they had the same response. Thank you for reading Unlock the rest of the article with a subscription. Your support keeps the good stuff coming. Subscribe now for full access to local reporting, breaking news, and more.

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Signaling defiance, Iran’s regime rallies around a younger Khamenei

Mar 09, 2026 |

By Scott Peterson

| The Christian Science Monitor

Despite 10 days of heavy and furiously paced U.S. and Israeli airstrikes on Iran with the declared aim of regime change, the Islamic Republic early Monday signaled defiant continuity by choosing a new supreme leader in wartime. Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei is the son of the slain hard-line supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who led Iran with the official title of “God’s Deputy on Earth” for 37 years. He was assassinated in Israel’s first strike of the war.

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Iran’s regime faces historic threat, but it’s not lacking in confidence

Mar 05, 2026 |

By Scott Peterson

| The Christian Science Monitor

The Islamic Republic of Iran, enduring waves of U.S. and Israeli military strikes, is seeking to project confidence, continuity, and defiance as it navigates its own survival through the most dangerous threat to its existence in its 47-year history. That confidence is not bravado, analysts say, but deeply felt.

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Iranian student: ‘Isn’t it ironic that we want war on our own country?’

Mar 03, 2026 |

By Scott Peterson

| The Christian Science Monitor

The Iranian university student had risked his life in protests in Tehran for regime change, so when news broke of the first waves of American and Israeli strikes in late February, he felt shock – and overwhelming disbelief. “I was having breakfast and checking my phone without concentration. My eyes popped out when I saw news about the attack: That was it, the very moment I had been longing for,” recalls the civil engineering student. He gave the name Mohammad, a pseudonym, for security reasons.

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Iran retaliates for killing of supreme leader, threatening regional security

Mar 01, 2026 |

By Taylor Luck, Shoshanna Solomon , Scott Peterson

| The Christian Science Monitor

Iran on Sunday attempted to exact a heavy price on the United States, Israel, and Washington’s Arab allies over the killing of Iran’s supreme leader. Hundreds of Iranian missiles and drones rained down on U.S. bases, embassies, Western businesses, airports, hotels, and residential buildings in Gulf countries, Jordan, and Israel. Air-defense systems prevented widespread casualties, but the attacks that succeeded exacted significant damage, including the conflict’s first American casualties.

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Ayatollah Ali Khamenei: Death of Iran's leader marks turning point for Islamic Republic

Mar 01, 2026 |

By Scott Peterson

| The Christian Science Monitor

Defiant to the end, Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed Saturday in the first targeted strikes of a broad American and Israeli military campaign designed to topple the Islamic Republic and destroy its nuclear and missile capabilities.

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US and Israel launch broad campaign against Iran

Feb 28, 2026 |

By Scott Peterson

| The Christian Science Monitor

Choosing war over diplomacy on Iran, the United States and Israel launched waves of airstrikes against military and civilian targets in cities across the Islamic Republic on Saturday. The first U.S.-Israeli strikes came at 9:45 a.m. local time in Tehran. Iran’s supreme leader’s complex and offices of the president and Supreme National Security Council – among a multitude of missile and nuclear targets across the country – were targeted, according to reports.

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‘This regime cannot get away with its crimes.’ An Iranian student speaks.

Feb 26, 2026 |

By Scott Peterson

| The Christian Science Monitor

The risks are great – and could even be deadly – for Iranian civil engineering student Mohammad, as he daily joins thousands of university students for anti-regime protests that have erupted once more, despite the deadliest crackdown on dissent in the history of the Islamic Republic.

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Ultimatum vs. resistance: Why US and Iran are talking past each other

Feb 24, 2026 |

By Scott Peterson

| The Christian Science Monitor

As Iran and the United States prepare for a third round of talks in Geneva Thursday, a candid comment by the chief American negotiator, Steve Witkoff, underscores the depth of reciprocal misreadings that is keeping both sides far apart.

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When governments pull the plug on dissent, citizens from Iran to Uganda fight to stay online

Feb 19, 2026 |

By Ryan Brown , Aakash Hassan , Scott Peterson

| The Christian Science Monitor

After the Jan. 3 ouster of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, paramilitary groups loyal to the deposed leader’s political movement began randomly stopping people on the streets of the capital, Caracas. They were searching for a type of contraband notoriously common in Venezuela – a virtual private network, or VPN. Often installed as software on a cellphone, a VPN masks a user’s location, allowing that person to bypass government restrictions that keep large swaths of the internet blocked here.

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Purdue basketball vs. Indiana start time, where to watch, predictions on Friday, Feb. 20 Original

Feb 19, 2026 |

By Scott Peterson

| The Indianapolis Star

The Indiana Hoosiers can improve their NCAA Tournament positioning against the Purdue Boilermakers. • Both teams are coming off convincing losses to national top 10-ranked teams. Indiana (17-9, 8-7 Big Ten) and No. 7 Purdue (21-5, 11-4) seek bounce-back wins when they meet for the second time this season. The Hoosiers — who hold a precarious position in recent bracketology predictions — lost handily to Illinois last weekend, while top-ranked Michigan handled the Boilermakers on Tuesday.

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Progress but not compromise as latest U.S.-Iran nuclear talks end

Feb 17, 2026 |

By Scott Peterson

| The Christian Science Monitor

A second round of talks between Iran and the United States in Geneva Feb. 17 over Tehran’s nuclear program yielded agreement on “guiding principles,” according to Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, but there were few signs of compromise from either side. Mr. Araghchi said “the path for a deal has started,” and that draft proposals would be exchanged before setting a date for a third round.

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On anniversary of revolution, has brutality broken Iran’s social contract?

Feb 10, 2026 |

By Scott Peterson

| The Christian Science Monitor

The young Iranian man with chiseled features and thick, sculpted hair was passionate about watches, taught his parents watchmaking, and dreamed one day of running his own watch gallery in Tehran. Family videos show Ali Manouchehr-Abadi smiling while holding a cake at a party. In a studio portrait, he wears a confident look – and a shirt depicting medieval Islamic warriors, a clear tribute to past Persian glory and identity. But Mr. Manouchehr-Abadi’s bright future came to an abrupt end on Jan. 8.

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A weakened Iran and a flexing America maneuver in run-up to pivotal talks

Feb 05, 2026 |

By Scott Peterson

| The Christian Science Monitor

Top American and Iranian negotiators are due to begin talks Friday in Oman after a nearly nine-month hiatus, during which dramatic events on the ground have transformed the strategic playing field in Washington’s favor – and against Iran’s. Beneath the shadow of a significant U.S. military build-up aimed at Iran, there are raised expectations at the White House that it can impose a maximalist deal.

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As US forces build in Middle East, Trump and Iran are locked in a staredown

Jan 29, 2026 |

By Scott Peterson

| The Christian Science Monitor

American military forces are building in the Middle East daily, arriving on a threat from U.S. President Donald Trump Wednesday that “time is running out” for Iran to do a deal, or face military action from a “massive armada.” Iran’s leadership, still smarting from Israeli and U.S. strikes last June, is trying to find its feet after a crackdown on nationwide anti-regime protests this month left thousands dead.

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After thousands died in crackdown, Iran is trying to change the narrative

Jan 24, 2026 |

By Scott Peterson

| The Christian Science Monitor

The way Iranian state television journalist Fatemeh Faramarzi describes it, the violence she witnessed at the peak of Iran’s latest street protests – including her face being sprayed with shotgun pellets – could only have been carried out by “terrorists” guided by foreign hands. She was speaking to the IRIB channel’s prime-time “Eyewitness” program.

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In Iran, witness accounts of atrocities counter regime claims of calm

Jan 15, 2026 |

By Scott Peterson

| The Christian Science Monitor

The Iranian mechanical engineer hadn’t slept for days, fearful his masked presence at the peak of anti-regime protests last week would prompt his arrest at home at any moment. Still in shock, his voice shaking and sometimes choking with emotion, he describes over the phone what he witnessed in Tehran of the Iranian government security forces’ lethal crackdown on protests that had swept the country.

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Seeing an ‘existential’ struggle, Iran cracks down hard on protests

Jan 11, 2026 |

By Scott Peterson

| The Christian Science Monitor

With antigovernment protests sweeping Iran, and reports emerging on Sunday of an increasingly lethal crackdown, the government in Tehran appears locked into a campaign of intimidation and threats directed at internal critics and foreign adversaries. The regime’s response to intensifying public unrest has been unprecedented both in breadth and depth.

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Dissent at home, threats from abroad. Iran faces ‘war on two fronts.’

Jan 07, 2026 |

By Scott Peterson

| The Christian Science Monitor

The events in Iran Tuesday, on the 10th day of widening protests that began over the economy, showcase the severity of the dual challenges now facing the Islamic Republic after 47 years in power – and how it might react to the pressure. As the value of the Iranian currency fell to a record low, security forces used tear gas to disperse a sit-in at the Grand Bazaar in Tehran.

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Indiana basketball vs. Maryland game live updates tonight: Start time, how to watch, radio

Jan 07, 2026 |

By Scott Peterson

| Journal & Courier

Jan. 7, 2026, 3:30 p.m. ET Indiana basketball (11-3, 2-1) visits Maryland (7-7, 0-3) in Big Ten action tonight. The Hoosiers have won three straight games and the Terrapins, who are missing their best player, have lost four of five. We will have live updates ad highlights, so please remember to refresh. What time does Indiana basketball play Maryland tonight, Jan. 7? Start time for Indiana basketball vs Maryland tonight, Jan. 7 The Indiana-Maryland game is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. ET Wednesday, Jan.

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In Lebanon, Hezbollah’s true believers are battered, yes, but unbowed

Dec 18, 2025 |

By Scott Peterson

| The Christian Science Monitor

The Hezbollah martyrs’ cemetery is perched high on the edge of the hilltop hamlet of Mahrouna, with commanding views across the tree-lined hills and ravines of southern Lebanon toward the border of Hezbollah’s perennial enemy, Israel. There is no sadness in the voice of Yehya Naameh Khalil, only pride, as he speaks about his son who is buried here – a Hezbollah unit commander called Hassan, with chiseled features and a steely-eyed look, who died in an Israeli strike in May 2024.

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Amid destruction, a determination to live

Dec 18, 2025 |

By Scott Peterson

| The Christian Science Monitor

Already a subscriber? Log in Already have a subscription? Activate it Ready for constructive world news? Join the Monitor community. Subscribe Every time I go to Ukraine, I come across scenes of yet more extraordinary human resilience. | Scott Peterson/Getty Images/The Christian Science Monitor KHARKIV, UKRAINE: A Ukrainian firefighter takes a break from battling a blaze at a food warehouse caused by two Russian ballistic missiles in a midday strike, July 30. Dec.

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‘Finding a window of hope’: Lebanon’s community holds strong amid ceasefire

Dec 14, 2025 |

By Scott Peterson

| The Christian Science Monitor

One year ago, there appeared no end in sight to Israel’s escalating military campaign against Hezbollah in Lebanon, with constant airstrikes forcing tens of thousands of Lebanese to flee their homes. As displaced Lebanese flooded into safe Beirut districts and southern coastal cities, their fellow citizens crossed sectarian lines and swung into action to feed and shelter them, with a community spirit well-honed by previous wars and disasters.

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To project power, and disarm Hezbollah, Lebanese state needs guns and butter

Dec 07, 2025 |

By Scott Peterson

| The Christian Science Monitor

The military checkpoint south of Sidon is flanked by armored vehicles mounted with machine guns and concrete blocks painted in the colors of the red and white Lebanese flag, with a green cedar tree. That’s like any other Lebanese Army checkpoint in southern Lebanon.

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As Israel keeps striking, Lebanese grapple with a ceasefire that isn’t

Dec 02, 2025 |

By Scott Peterson

| The Christian Science Monitor

The six missiles fired by an Israeli drone last week precisely perforated the walls of a Beirut apartment, blasting out two floors that rained car-crushing debris on the streets below and killing Hezbollah’s top military commander, Haytham Ali Tabatabai.

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In the fields and in the streets, Ukrainians fight to stay motivated

Nov 12, 2025 |

By Scott Peterson

| The Christian Science Monitor

When 11th grader Kostia thinks about his fellow Ukrainians’ will to keep fighting back against Russia, his mind goes to the final dance at his school last year. Teachers were looking for 10th grade boys as fill-ins to accompany the graduating 11th grade girls to the dance.

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To ‘Defending Ukraine’ curriculum, high schools add ‘How to fly a drone’

Nov 04, 2025 |

By Scott Peterson

| The Christian Science Monitor

The Ukrainian drone pilot wears a set of white goggles as he works his magic over an obstacle course – in a school gymnasium in Bucha. Illia might be a 14-year-old student with limited training, but he becomes a drone-flying hero when his nimble fingers zoom a small drone around posts and under arches, creating the same unnerving drone buzz that is today ubiquitous on Ukraine’s front line with Russia.

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Iran quietly backs Gaza truce amid bid to hand off regional bad-guy image

Oct 28, 2025 |

By Scott Peterson

| The Christian Science Monitor

When President Donald Trump announced agreement to his Gaza peace plan at a summit this month in Egypt with Middle Eastern and world leaders, Iran was not in the lineup. Tehran had been invited to hear Mr. Trump’s proclamation of peace, but refused to attend. That was unsurprising, given that Iran is a key supporter of Hamas, a member of its regional “Axis of Resistance” – an alliance that Israel and the United States have militarily weakened in a corollary to the two-year war in Gaza.

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As Russia hits energy grid, Ukraine tries to avoid a cold, dark winter

Oct 20, 2025 |

By Scott Peterson

| The Christian Science Monitor

There are few signs of life in the southeast Ukrainian town of Dobropillia, where recent Russian bombardments have left a ruin of residential apartment blocks that are patrolled constantly by Russian combat drones. Yet one unexpected sign of hope is the distinct hum of a large transformer housed in a small, intact brick building. Vitalii, a regional director of Ukraine’s electrical grid who declined to offer his full name, allows a smile to spread across his face at the sound.

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How Ukrainian drones are slowing Russia’s advance in the east

Oct 08, 2025 |

By Scott Peterson

| The Christian Science Monitor

The drone war unfolds on computer screens, deep in the recesses of a fortified underground dugout on Ukraine’s critical southeastern front line with Russia. It is here that Russian forces are slowly grinding forward in a costly advance. And it is here that they are being slowed, and sometimes stopped, by well-practiced Ukrainian drone operators hunting for Russian troops and hardware – and even deploying robotic ground vehicles to supply front-line Ukrainian forces.

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Near the front, more Ukrainian civilians flee Russia’s scorched-earth tactics

Oct 01, 2025 |

By Scott Peterson

| The Christian Science Monitor

The Ukrainian pensioner is still in shock after evacuating from her hometown of Mezhova. Once far removed from Ukraine’s southeastern front line, it’s a place she expected would never come under threat from Russia. But Lidiia Dudko’s hopes for calm began to fall apart in recent weeks. By extending the reach of its drones and the frequency of its missile and explosive bombardments, Russia has expanded the “gray zone” of Ukrainian territory it threatens, even if the front line barely moves.

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When do the Indiana Fever play the Las Vegas Aces in Game 2 of the WNBA semifinals? Start time of Fever game tonight, Sept. 23

Sep 23, 2025 |

By Scott Peterson

| The Star Press

The Indiana Fever rode Kelsey Mitchell's 34 points to an 89-73 victory over the Las Vegas Aces in Game 1 of their best-of-5 WNBA semifinals series. Here's what you should know about Game 2. What time do the Indiana Fever play the Las Vegas Aces on today, Sept. 23? When is Game 2 of the Indiana Fever vs. the Las Vegas Aces WNBA playoff series? Game 2 is scheduled for 9:30 p.m. ET Tuesday, Sept. 23, at Michelob Ultra Arena in Las Vegas. Where to watch the Indiana Fever vs.

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