World News

PDF Report.

• Located approximately 27 kilometers from the China-North Korean border, the Sinpung-dong Missile Operating Base is an undeclared ballistic missile operating base in North Pyongan Province. > - The base is one of North Korea’s approximately 15-20 ballistic missile bases, maintenance, support, missile storage, and warhead storage facilities which North Korea has never declared. This is the first in-depth open-source study confirming the base.
• Preliminary analysis suggests that the base likely houses a brigade-sized unit equipped with a total of 6-9 nuclear capable Hwasong-15 or -18 intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM), or an as yet unknown ICBM, and their transporter-erector-launchers (TEL) or mobile-erector-launchers (MEL). These missiles pose a potential nuclear threat to East Asia and the continental United States.
• Current assessments are that during times of crisis or war, these launchers and missiles will exit the base, meet special warhead storage/transportation units, and conduct launch operations from dispersed pre-surveyed sites.
• The Sinpung-dong Missile Operating Base and the other missile bases within North Korea’s strategic ballistic missile belt (including other undeclared bases like the Hoejung-ni, Sangnam-ni and Yongnim Missile Operating Bases) represent the primary components of what is presumed to be North Korea’s evolving ballistic missile strategy, and its expanding strategic-level nuclear deterrence and strike capabilities.
• The Sinpung-dong Missile Operating Base is not known to have been the subject of any denuclearization negotiations previously conducted between the United States and North Korea.

• Iranian authorities subjected detainees held in Evin prison, including arbitrarily detained human rights defenders and dissidents, to ill-treatment and violence during transfers out of Evin prison after the Israeli attack and as they moved hundreds back to the prison 46 days later.
• Authorities have held Evin prisoners in facilities that are overcrowded, filthy, and insect-infested and have refused to disclose the fate and whereabouts of some detainees, which amounts to enforced disappearances and places them at risk of torture.
• UN member states should pressure Iran’s government to immediately halt any plans to execute death-row prisoners; disclose the fate and whereabouts of forcibly disappeared detainees, including Swedish-Iranian death-row prisoner Dr. Ahmadreza Djalali; and release all arbitrarily detained prisoners.

• Israeli forces unlawfully attacked Evin prison in Tehran on June 23, 2025, absent any evident military target, killing and injuring scores of civilians including prisoners, their family members, and prison staff.
• The strikes, during prisoners’ visiting hours, significantly damaged multiple buildings, including in prison areas known to hold many activists and dissidents.
• Violations of the laws of war by Israeli and Iranian forces during the 12 days of conflict between June 13 to 25 should be fully investigated and those responsible for war crimes held to account.

"Can you believe this? It's hedgehog meat. I never imagined I would eat it, but what can I do? I'm pregnant, my body is worn out from hunger..."

Desktop Archive.

The Man Running Israel’s Intelligence Operation: David Barnea, the director of the Mossad, led Israel’s efforts to recruit Iranian dissidents to attack the country from within. Here’s what to know about him.

• Covert Ops: Commandos that the Mossad, Israel’s intelligence service, recruited from Iran and neighboring nations destroyed Iranian air defenses in the first hours of a June attack.
• Intelligence Gathering: Israeli operatives identified the bedrooms in which Iranian nuclear scientists were sleeping, enabling precise airstrikes.
• Cyber Deception: Israel sent a fake message that summoned senior Iranian military leaders to a phantom meeting in a bunker that was then bombed by Israeli jets.

• العربية
• Francis
• Deutsch
• עברית
• Italiano
• Español

• Israeli forces’ deadly attacks on schools sheltering Palestinian civilians highlight the absence of safe places for displaced people, the vast majority of Gaza’s population.
• Hundreds of Israeli attacks since October 2023 have struck over 500 school buildings, many used as shelters, killing hundreds of civilians and causing significant damage to nearly all of Gaza’s schools.
• The Israeli attacks have denied civilians safe access to shelter, and will contribute to the disruption of access to education for many years, as repair and reconstruction of schools can require significant resources and time.