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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 573

Jay Deshmukh

Shikma Bressler, a leader of the protest movement against the government's judicial overhaul, arrives with bodyguards at the weekly protest in Tel Aviv on September 30, 2023. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)
October 5, 2023, 2:29 pm
Protest leader vows not to let coalition ‘take democracy away,’ predicts its collapse
Physicist Shikma Bressler, who has become a leading face of the anti-overhaul rallies, warns of choice between ‘tyranny’ or system ‘that will ensure our liberal democratic values’
By Jay Deshmukh
Taliban security personnel stand guard along a road in Kabul on December 21, 2022. (Wakil KOHSAR / AFP)
December 25, 2022, 1:11 am
Taliban orders all NGOs to stop employing women over alleged hijab violations
Move sparks outcry, coming less than a week after Islamist authorities banned women from attending universities; Afghan women are effectively being squeezed out of public life
By Jay Deshmukh and Abdullah Hasrat
A Taliban fighter stands guard in front of the Russian embassy after an Islamic State suicide attack in Kabul on September 5, 2022. (Wakil KOHSAR / AFP)
September 5, 2022, 10:43 pm
Two Russian embassy staff among six killed in Kabul suicide attack
IS declares responsibility after bomber strikes mission’s consular section, in first attack against a foreign mission since the Taliban seized power last August
By Jay Deshmukh and Abdullah Hasrat
A female presenter for TOLOnews, Thamina Usmani, covers her face during a live broadcast at Tolo TV station in Kabul on May 22, 2022. (Wakil KOHSAR / AFP)
May 23, 2022, 3:45 am
‘We’ll use our voice’: Female Afghan TV hosts vow to fight against new burqa rule
Male presenters wear black masks on air in protest of Taliban’s order forcing woman to cover faces on television
By Jay Deshmukh and Abdullah Hasrat
Taliban fighters patrol the streets in Herat on August 14, 2021. (AFP)
August 15, 2021, 6:55 am
Taliban seize Jalalabad, racing closer to complete Afghan takeover
Islamist insurgents now holding all the cards in any negotiated surrender of the capital Kabul
By Jay Deshmukh
Afghan traffic police stand near a damaged vehicle where rockets were fired from in Kabul, Afghanistan, July 20, 2021. (Rahmat Gul/AP)
July 20, 2021, 9:45 am
Rockets slam into Afghan capital, minutes before president’s Eid speech
No injuries reported as 3 projectiles strike Kabul; no group takes responsibility for attack on city, the first since Taliban began offensive amid foreign troop withdrawal
By Jay Deshmukh
Afghan Jew Zebulon Simentov blows a shofar horn at a synagogue housed in an old building in Kabul, April 5, 2021. (WAKIL KOHSAR / AFP)
April 29, 2021, 10:43 am
Fearing the return of the Taliban, Afghanistan’s last Jew plans move to Israel
Zebulon Simentov endured Soviet invasion, civil war, Taliban rule and the US takeover, but now he says the dangers are too great and it is time to leave
By Jay Deshmukh and Usman SHARIFI
Sudanese men celebrate on April 11, 2019 while rallying in the capital Khartoum. (AFP)
April 11, 2019, 4:57 pm
Sudan army confirms it toppled, arrested veteran leader Omar al-Bashir
Defense minister announces ousting of regime, says a transitional military council will rule for 2 years
By Jay Deshmukh and Abdelmoneim Abu Idris Ali
Egypt's deposed Islamist president Mohammed Morsi raises his hands from behind the defendant's cage as the judge reads out his verdict sentencing him and more than 100 other defendants to death, at the police academy in Cairo on May 16, 2015. (Khaled Desouki/AFP)
July 4, 2015, 3:39 am
Two years after Morsi, Egypt stuck in turmoil
Slew of deadly attacks highlight lack of security despite Sissi’s military crackdown since taking power
By Jay Deshmukh
The coffin of Shaimaa el-Sabagh is carried out of the Zenhom morgue in Cairo, Egypt early Sunday, Jan. 25, 2015 (AP Photo/Ahmed Abd El-Gwad, El Shorouk Newspaper)
January 25, 2015, 5:05 pm
13 killed as clashes mar Egypt revolt anniversary
Cairo streets mostly deserted as residents stay home to avoid violence
By Samer al-Atrush and Jay Deshmukh
Egypt's former president Hosni Mubarak is wheeled on a bed from an ambulance to a medical helicopter outside Maadi military hospital as he heads to the court in Cairo for his trial on November 29, 2014. (Photo credit:AFP / KHALED DESOUKI)
November 29, 2014, 9:44 am
Verdict due in murder retrial of Egypt’s Mubarak
Ousted president accused of involvement in killing of hundreds of demonstrators during 2011 revolt
By Jay Deshmukh
An Egyptian supporter of Egypt's former army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi holds his portrait during a gathering in the capital Cairo on May 10, 2014. (photo credit: AFP Photo/Mohamed el-Shahed)
May 11, 2014, 12:05 pm
In Cairo, Sissi pushes stability over freedoms
Former general, projected winner in the upcoming presidential election, says it will take decades to achieve true democracy in Egypt
By Jay Deshmukh
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