Iowa State’s coach was furious in the first quarter after one of his players was ejected for targeting, and after another penalty against his squad, he called a timeout. Rather than spend the timeout talking to his players, he spent the time shouting at the referees. MORE: These CFB teams are on upset alert this weekend It looked like Iowa State would be forcing Baylor to settle for a field goal in the second quarter after stuffing Craig Williams for only a gain of two on a 3rd-and-seven run at the Iowa State 27....

One of the U.S. officials said that during last summer’s war between Hizbullah and Israel, Iran air-freighted munitions to Lebanon via Damascus. Since then, two of the officials indicated, intel agencies believe Tehran has sent several trainloads of weapons to its Lebanese allies; the train that crashed is the first such shipment ever intercepted. Intel officials see mounting evidence that Iran is arming anti-American forces. Iran has sent weapons to Shia militias in Iraq, and there’s some evidence that Iranian operatives have also sent arms to Sunni insurgents, as well as to resurgent Taliban forces in Afghanistan....

The blast Wednesday injured up to six people just as worshippers concluded midday prayers at the Pul-e-Khishti Mosque, located in a crowded neighborhood of the Afghan capital. No group or individual has yet claimed responsibility for the attack, but the Taliban-led Afghan Interior Ministry said it detained a suspect on the scene and brought him in for questioning. The incident follows a series of deadly bombings late last year claimed by the Islamic State militant group’s Khorasan branch (ISIS-K) against mosques, many of which were of Shiite Muslim denomination, drawing particular outrage from neighboring Iran....

Although the indictments didn’t publicly mention the name of the intended victim, she “outed” herself. Masih Alinejad is an Iranian-born U.S. citizen, a journalist and a vocal critic of the Iranian regime. She is an outspoken advocate of women’s rights—including the right to remove the law-enforced hijab in Iran—as well as a presenter and producer at Voice of America Persian Service and contributor to numerous other media outlets. Much of the material she presents is video and audio from Iranian people desperate to find someone to spread their story in the West....

Marchers took to the streets in several areas of the capital on Monday. Videos sent to Newsweek by opposition activists and other clips uploaded on Twitter showed dozens of people choking roads and chanting for the fall of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The protests began in the southwestern, oil-rich province of Khuzestan earlier this month. Iran’s worst drought in 50 years has left parts of the province without sufficient water or electricity....

Iranian Health Ministry spokesperson Sima Sadat Lari said the country’s total pandemic death toll now stands at 28,544, making it the hardest-hit nation in the Middle East. On Sunday, Tehran confirmed a record single-day death toll of 251 people, while local media reported that at least two senior officials in the government were among those infected. Ali Akbar Salehi, head of Iran’s atomic energy organization, tested positive for COVID-19. He has been a leading critic of the Trump administration re-imposing sanctions on Iran after pulling out of the Obama-era nuclear deal in 2018....

Considering the economic sanctions that limit some of Iran’s more ambitious economic intentions, and the many miles that separate the Islamic Republic from the African continent, it may seem unlikely that Iran would have significant interests in Africa. Nonetheless, alongside ISIS, al-Qaeda and various Sunni terror groups, Iran is aggressively seeking to fulfill its own Islamist conquest. This campaign involves the activities of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and its many proxies—most famously Lebanese Hezbollah....

Speaking at an annual Ramadan meeting with Iranian university students on Sunday, Khamenei accused the U.S. of warmongering and oppression in the Middle East, according to the state-backed Press TV. The meeting was held via video call as Iran continues its battle against the coronavirus pandemic, which has infected more than 120,100 people in Iran and killed at least 7,000, according to Johns Hopkins University. Khamanei told students that the “long-term performance of the United States, including warmongering, helping notorious regimes, harboring terrorists, sparing no effort in supporting oppression, has caused this government to be hated in an important part of the world....

Reuters cited a senior Trump administration official Thursday as saying that the U.S. is “looking at measures that can be taken” in response to Venezuela buying fuel for gold from Iran. The remark provoked furor in Tehran, where Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Abbas Mousavi accused Washington on Monday of threatening “piracy” and “seeking a kind of global anarchy” that should alarm the international community. “If the Americans take action against the free and legal movement of our ships, they will face a decisive response from us,” Mousavi said....

Police officials in Tehran, Iran’s capital, announced the closure of venues that hold weddings and funeral ceremonies until further notice, Reuters reported Saturday. The move comes as Iran’s COVID-19 death toll increased by 188 people in the past 24 hours, totaling 12,635 people who have died from coronavirus in the Middle East nation since March. The Iranian government had been slowly relaxing lockdown measures since mid-April, but a recent spike in the country’s infection rate has prompted new measures....

In Washington last week, Bush signaled more firmly than ever his determination to oust Saddam. “He is a problem,” the president said at a press conference. “And we’re going to deal with him.” On an eight-day tour of Middle Eastern capitals, Vice President Dick Cheney was trying to line up support for U.S. intervention in Iraq. Publicly, Arab leaders raised strong objections. Privately, at least one key Arab leader was more pliable....

“The Iraqi resistance was earlier than the Afghans in forcing the United States to withdraw from Iraq in 2011,” Nasr al-Shammary, spokesperson for the Hezbollah al-Nujaba Movement, told Newsweek, “and today the Iraqi resistance is stronger and more numerous.” The resistance, he argued, “has the ability to confront, prolong, and insist on expelling any foreign forces from Iraqi soil.” “We have our own unique and rich experience, and great cultural and ideological legacy,” Shammary added, “and we respect all the experiences of free peoples....

That assassination elicited outrage across Iraq, Iran and other parts of the region. Just days after the one-year anniversary of the event, which was noted by Iran and other nations in the region, a Popular Mobilization Forces spokesperson told Newsweek the group welcomed Fayyadh’s enemy status in the eyes of the U.S. “We congratulate the friend of the martyrs, Popular Mobilization Committee Chairman Falih al-Fayyadh, on his inclusion with the honorable ones whom the U....

Iraq’s ivory tower is under siege. Thousands of academics have fled the country, classes are frequently canceled, students often stay home and research has slowed to a standstill as sectarian militias increasingly target academia. Between 250 and 1,000 professors have been killed since the 2003 invasion, according to different estimates. Many more have received bullets through internal mail, had death threats tacked to their office doors, or received anonymous phone calls warning them not to come to work, often for showing a lack of zeal in the sectarian conflicts....

But the anticipated plan is already being met with reservations both by those uncertain of Iraq’s ability to tackle threats such as those posed by the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) without hands-on U.S. backing, and those who demand a total U.S. military exit from the country. As the fourth session of the U.S.-Iraq Strategic Dialogue takes place in Washington, the second under U.S. President Joe Biden, attention is fixed on the future of the U....

DeSantis’ decision to fly about 50 mainly Venezuelan migrants from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard last week is part of an ongoing Republican effort to spotlight immigration issues under the Biden administration. In the last five months, Texas Governor Greg Abbott and Arizona Governor Doug Ducey have bussed thousands of migrants to cities like New York City, Washington, D.C., and Chicago. Democratic officials in Massachusetts, Florida and California have all urged the Justice Department to investigate DeSantis’ move....

The decision comes after Representative Ted Lieu posted a letter on Twitter to IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig urging him to halt the IRS’s plan to use facial recognition through the third-party company ID.me, saying it could put Americans’ information at risk to cyberattacks. Lieu and fellow Representatives Pramila Jayapal, Yvette D. Clarke and Anna G. Eshoo all signed the letter. The IRS said it will discontinue using third-party services for facial recognition used to help authenticate people making new accounts online....

According to Khoza, Tinkler, who is now at SuperSport United, received a very good offer from the Citizens, but he admits that it wasn’t easy to let him go. He also blamed the Pirates supporters for their impatience on the man who guided the team to the 2015 Caf Confederation Cup final. “What defines a coach is their work ethic. Tinkler is defined by that. Tinkler is hands on. That is why it was not easy for me to let him go....

On Friday, the highly anticipated sequel to Sacha Baron Cohan’s 2006 satire Borat came out. Borat Subsequent Moviefilm follows the titular Borat character and his daughter, Tutar (Maria Balakova), who travel to America to offer Tutar as a bride for Vice President Mike Pence. The mockumentary pokes fun at America and pranks celebrities, much like its predecessor. This time around, though, Borat has a feminist streak to it—you read that right, folks....

The crime drama follows the McLusky family, Mike (Jeremy Renner), Mitch (Kyle Chandler) and Kyle (Taylor Handley), and the extreme lengths they go to in order to bring order to a town bursting with crime and corruption. And Hugh Dillon, who created the show alongside Tyler Sheridan, discussed the inspiration behind the show with Newsweek. Dillon drew on his experience as a child for the story of Mayor of Kingstown as he lived in a place similar to the one he’s written for the small screen....