The Rest of the World Report | July 17, 2026 — Evening Edition

Israel struck a funeral today. Iran hit its own mediator's capital, again. And the man who killed Joan Sebastián Durán Guerrero had a documented history his own family tried to warn everyone about.Israeli forces bombed a Gaza funeral, killing seven mourners hours after the first strike that caused it. Today would have been the ceasefire deal's halfway point. Instead, Iran launched its biggest attack since talks collapsed, hitting its own mediator's capital yet again. Court records show the ICE agent who killed Durán Guerrero has a documented history of domestic violence. He was hired anyway."Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government." — Thomas Jefferson, 1789 Get full access to The Rest of the World Report at www.restoftheworldreport.com/subscribe