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  A US Justice Department logo or seal showing Justice Department headquarters, known as "Main Justice," is seen behind the podium in the Department's headquarters briefing room before a news conference with the Attorney General in Washington, January 24, 2023. (photo credit: KEVIN LAMARQUE/REUTERS) The US State Department’s Rewards for Justice program on Tuesday announced a $10 million reward for information leading to the location of several of the people included in the charges. The US Justice Department (DOJ) on Tuesday unsealed new and updated charges against 17 individuals working with an Iranian company that it alleges carried out hacks and data theft against US universities , companies, and government agencies. The DOJ said in a statement that the individuals were working with the Mabna Institute, which carried out hacking campaigns on behalf of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and other Iranian government and university clients.

  Supporters of the Iran-backed Houthi movement brandish their weapons as they rally in solidarity with Iran and Lebanon amid the Middle East war, in the capital Sanaa on April 17, 2026. (photo credit: Mohammed Huwais/AFP via Getty Images) Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis said on Monday they had attacked what they described as a Saudi military ship and four escort vessels in the Red Sea with missiles, according to a statement by the group’s military spokesperson, Yahya Saree on Telegram. “The attack was carried out using several ballistic missiles, and the strikes were accurate and direct," the statement read. "The operation resulted in the Saudi warship catching fire completely; several of the boats escorting it sank, while the others caught fire. The armed forces continue to establish the equation of blockade for blockade and to attack all Saudi military concentrations.”  There was no immediate confirmation from Saudi authorities on the attack.

  A symbolic mockup of an Iranian missile is displayed, amid a ceasefire between US and Iran, in Tehran, Iran, April 27, 2026. (photo credit: MAJID ASGARIPOUR/REUTERS) Iran viewed the development of a memorandum of understanding with the United States as an attempt by Israel and the US to buy time for a larger attack, and used the opportunity to prepare for a larger fight themselves, The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday, citing Iranian and Arab officials. According to the WSJ, Arab intelligence officials picked up evidence of Iranian leaders planning potential attacks on enemy territory, broadening the scope of the war and raising the cost for the US. “There is also a widespread view in Iran that the main war has not yet begun,” Mohammad Hassan Sangtarash, a Tehran-based defense analyst close to the Iranian government, told the WSJ . “What we have seen so far is increasingly interpreted through the lens of ‘salami-slicing’ tactics - limited, incremental escalation designed ...

A drone is seen during an Iranian Army exercise dubbed 'Zulfiqar 1400', in the coastal area of the Gulf of Oman, Iran, in this picture obtained on November 7, 2021 (photo credit: IRANIAN ARMY/WANA/REUTERS) Two drones attacked the office of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG)'s prime minister and the residence of the head of the protection agency on Monday, the KRG announced in a security statement. The statement added that the attacks were launched from Iranian territory and that no human casualties had been reported.

Iran's foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei holds a weekly press conference in Tehran on October 28, 2024. (photo credit: Atta Kenare/AFP via Getty Images) Iran said on Monday that two French embassy employees involved in a diplomatic dispute last month would not be allowed to return to Iran. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said the two had violated the Vienna Convention - which defines the rules and privileges of diplomatic missions - by engaging in activities supporting Iranian civil society. "Insisting that these individuals were engaged in activities related to supporting civil society is itself an admission that the Vienna Convention was violated," Baghaei told a weekly press conference, without elaborating

Otzma Yehudit party chairman and National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, together with members of his party, attends a supporters’ conference ahead of the upcoming general elections in Petah Tikva, central Israel, August 16, 2026. (photo credit: ERIK MARMOR/FLASH90) "I think that we need to do targeted strikes in Gaza every night, take out 30, 40 - not just those who endanger us in that moment," Ben-Gvir said Israel should be killing 30 to 40 Gazans in precision strikes every night, National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir said on a podcast with former hostage Rom Braslavski on Sunday. "It's no secret, I disagreed with the prime minister," Ben-Gvir said. "I think that we need to do targeted strikes in Gaza every night, take out 30, 40 - not just those who endanger us in that moment. There are people there who aren't worthy of life; they shouldn't be alive; they aren't people at all." Ben-Gvir also said that even Gaza citizens whom so...