Day: July 15, 2026

NEW: The United States has continued to strike Iranian military targets, including some targets further inland. Iranian regime media reported on July 15 that US forces struck the Artesh Ground Forces 388th Mechanized Assault Brigade barracks in Iranshahr, Sistan and Baluchistan Province. This strike is notable given that the 388th Brigade is located around 200 kilometers from the Iranian coast, while most US airstrikes in July have been concentrated around Iran’s southern coast. The Artesh has conducted operations throughout the war and most recently claimed on July 15 that it conducted drone strikes targeting US forces at Muwaffaq Salti Airbase in Azraq, Jordan.

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Iraqi media reported on July 15 that an unknown actor launched six drones targeting Erbil International Airport and the US Consulate in Erbil, Erbil Province. It is unclear whether Iran or Iranian-backed Iraqi militias conducted this attack.

Iran is attacking vessels that have adopted alternative mechanisms to bypass Iranian control of the Strait of Hormuz. Iran attacked three vessels in the strait on July 13, two of which were doing “shuttle runs,” or repeated short trips to ports outside the strait in order to transport oil through the strait while avoiding Iranian territorial waters.

Iran’s attacks on shipping are having some success in deterring shipping companies from using routes outside Iran’s illegal traffic separation scheme, which advances Iran’s objective of securing control over the strait. Seven maritime security and shipping industry sources told Reuters on July 15 that shipping companies are avoiding using the southern route despite US military escorts, highlighting how shipping companies’ willingness to use alternative routes in the strait is dependent on their risk calculations. (1/2)

After The New York Times reported on security concerns related to the Qatari-donated jet, the F.B.I. sought to speak with several people who flew aboard the plane with President Trump last week and asked for their phones.

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The Kuwaiti Army has announced that over the past day, air defenses have engaged 4 cruise missiles and 21 one way attack drones (UAVs).

Chase was in psychotherapy for years. This scene — which plays more like a rabbinical sermon than a clinical session (set up by Carmela’s questioning Krakower’s Judaism and its relevance to her Catholic marriage) — also presages Melfi’s belated realization that talk therapy exacerbates sociopathy because it allows the sociopath to excuse or rationalize his behavior. Masterful television, and one reason why the “Sopranos” is a series that has to be rewatched again and again.best of the sopranos (@Bestofsopranos)Dr. Krakower destroys every excuse Carmela has built for herself

She walks in with a lifetime of them and he takes them apart one at a time

My priest says I should help him become a better man. How’s that going?

He’s a good man, a good father. You just told me he’s a depressed criminal, prone to anger, serially unfaithful. Is that your definition of a good man?

She reaches for therapy-speak. Maybe I need to define my boundaries, keep a certain distance, not internalize. What did I just say? Leave him

Then the one that always works. I’m not an accomplice, all I do is make sure he has clean clothes in the closet and dinner on the table. Krakower doesn’t even argue it. Enabler is a more accurate job description. My apologies

“Take only the children, what’s left of them, and go”

She tries the practicalities. A lawyer, an apartment, child support. He cuts her off. He won’t charge her for the session, because he won’t take blood money, and neither can she

“One thing you can never say is that you haven’t been told”

Five minutes of screen time. He never appears again. He didn’t need to
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The Justice Department is seeking to compel grand jury testimony as part of an investigation into Times reporting on the president’s new Air Force One jet.