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What Matters Most On Saturday, March 21, 2026

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This undated image released by US Navy shows an aerial view of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean. (US Navy via AP)

Base is home to about 2,500 mostly American personnel

Iran unsuccessfully targets UK-US Diego Garcia base, shows its missiles can reach Western Europe

Regime fires two missiles fired at US-UK Indian Ocean base 2,500 miles (4,000 kilometers) away; state media outlet boasts missile range ‘is beyond what the enemy previously imagined’

Joint Direct Attack Munitions (JDAMs) are taken from a US Air Force B-1 Lancer bomber at RAF Fairford in southwest England on March 15, 2026. (Henry Nicholls/AFP)

UK okays US use of its bases to strike Iranian threats to shipping in Strait of Hormuz

Israeli security and rescue forces at the scene where a daycare in Rishon Lezion, central Israel, was damaged by shrapnel from a ballistic missile fired from Iran at Israel, March 21, 2026. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Iranian cluster bombs smash into empty daycare, several other sites in Rishon Lezion

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Mayor stresses city will keep all education facilities closed after 8 a.m. strike: ‘Look what time it happened; there could have been kids at this kindergarten’; no injuries reported in 4 salvos since midnight

First responders work at the scene where an Iranian cluster bomb submunition hit a kindergarten in Rishon Lezion on March 21, 2026. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Education minister scraps some Passover camps after Iran cluster bomb hits daycare

Israel Police officers pass by Palestinian Muslims as they perform Eid al-Fitr prayers outside Jerusalem's Old City, March 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Cops forcefully clear Eid prayers outside Jerusalem’s Old City amid Iran war closure

By Charlie Summers and AFP

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir speaks in a video statement March 21, 2026. (Israel Defense Forces)

Live updates (closed)

March 21: Zamir says Iran campaign at ‘halfway’ stage; Iran’s fire at Diego Garcia shows Europe ‘within range’

After attacks on Dimona and Arad, Education Ministry says all schools to go remote on Sunday and Monday * Netanyahu vows to keep ‘striking enemies on all fronts’ after dozens hurt on ‘very difficult evening’ in the south

9:59 pm

After attacks on Dimona and Arad, Education Ministry says all schools to go remote on Sunday and Monday
9:55 pm

Netanyahu vows to keep 'striking enemies on all fronts' after dozens hurt on 'very difficult evening' in the south
9:07 pm

Medics raise number of wounded in Arad to 64, among them 7 in serious condition

US President Donald Trump walks with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio as he departs from the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC, on March 20, 2026 for his Mar-a-Lago residence, where he will spend the weekend. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP)

More Marines head to Mideast as US threatens key Iran island

Trump rules out ceasefire with Iran, then says he’s considering ‘winding down’ campaign

By Jacob Magid and Agencies

President says Israel will agree to end war when he’s ready, US ‘obliterating other side’; laments ‘there’s nobody to talk to’ in Iran’; conflicting reports on potential use of ground troops

Illustrative: This picture taken on October 31, 2022, shows an oil tanker seized by Iranian naval forces at the Gulf port of Bandar Abbas in southern Iran. (IRNA / AFP)

US okays temporary trade of oil from Iran already at sea to curb supply crisis

By AFP

US President Donald Trump steps off Air Force One, March 20, 2026, at Palm Beach International Airport in West Palm Beach, Florida. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

TimelineHow Trump’s Iran war goals and time frames have shifted over course of conflict

By Kanishka Singh

Khamenei, not yet seen in war, said to claim enemy defeated

Iran threatens to target tourist, recreational sites worldwide as it keeps up attacks on Gulf

By Agencies and ToI Staff

In ostensible first remarks of war, Quds Force chief hails Tehran-led ‘resistance front’ for fighting Israel and US; American military to deploy 2,500 more Marines to the Mideast

Mourners bid farewell to the bodies of Iran's slain intelligence minister Esmaeil Khatib and his family during their funeral, after the weekly Friday noon prayers in Tehran, on March 20, 2026. (AFP)

Protesters display a banner calling for a halt to executions in Iran during a rally in Berlin, Germany, on January 10, 2026, in support of the Iran protests. (John MacDougall / AFP)

Wave of executions feared in Iran as authorities hang 3 young men nabbed in protests

By Lee Keath, Julia Frankel and Sarah El Deeb

This photograph taken during a media tour organized by Hezbollah shows a man installing a flag of Hezbollah on the balcony of a damaged building at Nabi Chit town after an Israeli military operation in the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon, on March 7, 2026. (Photo by FADEL itani / AFP)

UAE says it dismantled terrorist network funded by Iran and Hezbollah

By AFP

Iron Dome interceptors go up behind a group of Israeli soldiers along the border with Lebanon, in the Upper Galilee in northern Israel, on March 21, 2026. (Odd ANDERSEN / AFP)

Hezbollah rocket injures 5 in north, buildings damaged in barrages as IDF strikes Lebanon

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Homes hit in Metula and Safed, but none hurt; army says soldiers operating across the border exchanged fire with terror operatives, killing several

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun posing with US ambassador to Lebanon Michel Issa (L) at the presidential palace of Baabda, east of Beirut, on November 17, 2025. (HANDOUT / Lebanese Presidency / AFP)

US hails Lebanon’s proposal for talks with Israel as Hezbollah keeps up rocket fire

By Agencies, Nava Freiberg and Emanuel Fabian

Inside story

Laila Bassam, TOM PERRY, Samia Nakhoul and Maya Gebeily

How Iran’s IRGC rebuilt Lebanon’s Hezbollah to be ready for war

Iranian advisers filled the gaps in Hezbollah’s decimated leadership, shifted terror group from a hierarchical command to small decentralized units

A flag of Hezbollah flutters at the site of destroyed buildings following airstrikes in Beirut's southern suburbs of Ghobeiry neighborhood, on March 5, 2026. (Photo by AFP)

Iranian, Romanian charged for trying to enter UK nuclear submarine base

By AFP

Pair tried to breach Faslane base in Scotland, which houses the UK’s Trident nuclear deterrent, will appear in court on Monday

A Vanguard-class submarine undergoes maintenance at HM Naval Base Clyde at Faslane, north-west of Glasgow, Scotland on April 28, 2023. (Photo by Andy Buchanan / AFP)

Illustrative: Lina Glushko of Israel plays during the WTA 125 Polish Open 2024 tennis tournament in Warsaw, Poland, July 25, 2024. (Foto Olimpik/NurPhoto via Reuters)

Israel drops out of top women’s tennis tournament in Bosnia over security concerns

Armed members of Hamas and Islamic Jihad greet people gathering for Eid al-Fitr prayers in Gaza City, March 20, 2026. (AP/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Inside story

Hamas given proposal for gradual weapon handover in months-long process — officials

Offer calls for Hamas to hand over rockets, launchers along with map of tunnels within 90 days; Israel long opposed gradual framework, but didn’t push back when it came time to present

Philippe Lazzarini, Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, speaks during a UN Security Council meeting at UN headquarters in New York City on January 28, 2025. (Yuki IWAMURA / AFP)

Outgoing UNRWA head warns agency ‘may soon no longer be viable’ amid Israeli opposition

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Author Judy Blume at BookCon in New York, May 31, 2015. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

Blume broke taboos on menstruation, wet dreams and teen sex

For generations of Judy Blume fans, long-awaited biography does not disappoint

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Realistic kids’ and teen fiction pioneer introduced readers to relatable characters and plots, not to mention unforgettable lines like, ‘We must, we must, we must increase our bust!’

Close-up of Javier Bardem's political attire at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party on March 15, 2026, at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in Los Angeles. (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

The Reel Schmooze podcast

The Oscars edition: Tribe pride and Israel vilified

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Jordan Hoffman

After chewing over Hollywood’s big night, ToI’s movie maven and deputy editor weigh in on the newest ‘Superman’ flick and its political overtones

When no one really pressed the button: AI in war

’Who is responsible?’ is the law’s most basic question. In an age of split-second, data-driven decisions, it’s becoming harder to answer

Harvard got sued. It deserves it.

The Trump Administration’s new Title VI complaint is more legally serious than its critics will admit, and Harvard’s own record makes the case for them

Cornell University students sit outside on November 3, 2023, in Ithaca, New York. (Matt Burkhartt/ Getty Images/ AFP)

Cornell president rejects students’ anti-Israel resolutions, citing ‘political bias’

Michael Kotlikoff says measures demanding halt to cooperation with Technion and condemning Tzipi Livni’s campus visit ‘imperil our academic principles’

Students and faculty rally at the University of California, Berkeley campus to protest the Trump administration's crackdown on universities over antisemitism, on March 19, 2025, in Berkeley, Calif. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)

In settlement, UC Berkeley agrees that bans on Zionists ‘can violate university rules’

By Andrew Lapin

Anti-Israel demonstrators gather on Cambridge Common to protest Harvard's stance on the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza and show support for the Palestinian people, outside Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, April 25, 2025. (Joseph Prezioso/AFP)

US feds sue Harvard for failing to uphold civil rights of Jewish and Israeli students

Trump administration seeks to recoup billions in government grants for the elite university, accusing it of ‘intentionally refusing to enforce campus rules when victims are Jews or Israelis’

Far-right influencer Jake Lang speaks in front of Gracie Mansion at a protest he organized on March 9, 2026, in New York City. (Ryan Murphy/Getty Images via JTA)

'This guy is a Jewish operative and his campaign is a psyop'

Jan. 6 protester Jake Lang renounced his Judaism to court the far right. It isn’t working

By Grace Gilson

Despite burning a Talmud and other antisemitic displays, the extremist influencer is being roasted by peers including Nick Fuentes as the Iran war deepens a conservative rift over Israel

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) delivers its order on the request by Nicaragua to order Germany to cease arms sales to Israel against the background of the conflict in Gaza at the Peace Palace in The Hague, the seat of the ICJ, April 30, 2024. (Courtesy: International Court of Justice)

Germany pulls support for Israel in ICJ genocide case as it faces own accusations

By Shira Li Bartov

Berlin says it cannot support Israel’s case against charges without compromising defense of accusations by Nicaragua that Germany violated international law by backing Gaza war

Customers buy vegetables and fruits at a local market in Kawa Camp, which houses Iranian Kurdish refugees who fled Iran following the 1979 Islamic Revolution, in the outskirts of Irbil, Iraq, Saturday, March 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Exiled Iranian Kurds in Iraq say they will return only if Iran’s theocracy falls

By SAMYA KULLAB

Most were displaced after Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution and now eke out a living on the margins of Iraqi Kurdish society, but are wary of promises from foreign powers

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The French aircraft carrier Charles-de-Gaulle is seen as it passes through the Strait of Gibraltar off the coast of southern Spain in Tarifa, on March 6, 2026.(Photo by JORGE GUERRERO / AFP)

Keeping trackRunning app said to reveal location of French aircraft carrier

By AFP

Anti-Israel protesters assemble outside of Adas Torah, a synagogue in the Pico Robertson neighborhood of Los Angeles, July 23, 2024. (Shay Horse/NurPhoto via Getty Images and JTA)

California rep. proposes ‘buffer zone’ bill to limit protests near houses of worship

By Asaf Elia-Shalev

Firefighters and investigators check the scene of the burnt factory owned by Czech arms maker LPP Holding, March 20, 2026, in Pardubice, Czech Republic. (Michal Cizek / AFP)

Anti-Israel group claims responsibility for blaze at Czech arms maker

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Andrew Ginsburg celebrates after winning a JFK Jr. look-alike competition in the West Village. (Courtesy Andrew Ginsberg via JTA)

Jew-FK Jr.Jewish dad and kids’ book author wins JFK Jr. lookalike contest

By Grace Gilson

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