CNN’s Fred Pleitgen gets a close-up look at the missiles Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps used in the attack on Israel.

Dissident rapper Toomaj Salehi has been given a death sentence for his involvement in the widespread protests that swept Iran in 2022, according to his lawyer.

Buenos Aires seeks Interpol’s help to detain Interior Minister Ahmad Vahidi, after a court found Hezbollah was responsible for the attack and that it had acted with directives and financing from Iran.

US prosecutors on Tuesday announced charges against four Iranian men for a sprawling hacking campaign that targeted US federal agencies and sensitive data held by American defense contractors.

A “huge explosion” took place at a military base belonging to Iraq’s Iranian-backed Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) in the Babylon Governorate south of Baghdad, an Iraqi security source told CNN on Saturday (local time).

Hours before Israel launched a drone strike against Iran on Thursday night, Israeli officials gave a heads up to their US counterparts in Washington: an attack was in the works, they said, and without sharing specifics, indicated it would be carried out in the next several days, according to a senior US official.

Israel and Iran have now thrust the Middle East into a dangerous new era by erasing the taboo against overt military strikes on one another’s territory.

The scope of Israel’s military response to Iran’s first-ever direct attack on the country remains murky. Israeli officials have yet to publicly acknowledge responsibility for reported overnight explosions in parts of Iran on Friday. Tehran has dismissed these as attacks by “tiny drones” that were shot down by its air defense systems.

As Israel struck Iran overnight in what appeared to be a limited retaliation for last weekend’s attack, the Biden administration adopted a tightlipped approach that reflected US officials’ desire to keep a level of distance from the decision to strike back.

An unclaimed aerial attack in central Iran on Friday comes fresh on the heels of tit-for-tat Iranian and Israeli strikes earlier this month, marking a potentially dangerous escalation of the Middle East conflict.

Iranian semi-official FARS news, citing local sources, reports an explosion was heard northwest of Isfahan.

Iran’s response if Israel takes any further military action against it would be “immediate and at a maximum level”, Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian told CNN Thursday as fears rise of an escalation of the conflict in the Middle East.

Iranian authorities have warned that crocodiles are being forced from their natural habitats as floods devastate parts of the country’s southeast.

House Republicans released the text of three bills Wednesday that would provide aid for Ukraine, Israel and the Indo-Pacific region, with the latter intended to help deter Chinese aggression in the area.

The United States slapped new sanctions Thursday on sixteen people and two entities associated with Iran’s drone program as it looks to punish Tehran for last weekend’s attack on Israel.

Federal law enforcement is on alert for any potential threats to the US Jewish community ahead of the start of the Passover holiday, FBI Director Christopher Wray told a group of nationwide security officials Wednesday.

Last week’s attack was the first time in more than three decades that missiles directed at Israel entered Jordanian airspace, when Saddam Hussein launched Scud missiles at the Jewish state in 1991 during the Gulf War.

Can Netanyahu read the room right – with Iran threatening to attack, allies warning him not to – and avoid triggering a regional war?

Benjamin Netanyahu has to weigh his right-wing coalition’s call for a strong reaction against the risk of further international isolation for Israel by widening the war without international support.

House Republicans have lined up a slate of bills targeting Iran and showing support for Israel, but the exact path forward for aid to Israel remains unclear as Congress remains divided over the issue in the wake of Iran’s unprecedented retaliatory strikes on Israel.

Israel’s war cabinet has been engaged in a heated debate about how and when to respond to Iran’s weekend attack on their country, two Israeli officials familiar with the deliberations tell CNN.

China has voiced “deep concern” over escalating tensions in the Middle East after Iran launched hundreds of drones and missiles in an unprecedented attack on Israel, raising the prospect of a wider conflagration in a region where Beijing has pledged to play peacemaker and promote its own security vision.

Congressional leaders from both parties were quick to condemn Iran’s retaliatory strikes on Israel this Saturday but still remain at odds on how to pass additional Israel funding in wake of the attacks.

The wave of drones and missiles that flew towards Israel overnight on Sunday brought with it a new phase of tension, uncertainty and confrontation in the Middle East.

A decades-long shadow war burst out into the open overnight as Iranian drones and missiles lit up the night sky in Israel and the occupied West Bank. Tehran’s operation was highly choreographed, apparently designed to minimize casualties while maximizing spectacle.

President Joe Biden and senior members of his national security team, seeking to contain the risk of a wider regional war following a barrage of Iranian missiles and drones directed toward Israel, have told their counterparts the US will not participate in any offensive action against Iran, according to US officials familiar with the matter.

Israel’s three-man war cabinet is weighing the country’s response to an unprecedented overnight barrage of drone and missile strikes from Iran, which for several hours threatened to tip the crisis in the Middle East into an untempered regional war.

Almost all the ballistic missiles and drones Iran launched at Israel in an unprecedented attack late Saturday were intercepted and failed to meet their mark, according to Israel and the United States officials, highlighting the formidable, and multi-layered missile defense deployed by the two allied partners.

For President Joe Biden, an attack on Israel launched from Iranian soil amounts to a scenario he’d greatly sought to avoid since the start of the current Middle East conflict.

Iran has launched drones toward Israel, according Israel Defense Forces spokesperson Daniel Hagari, amid fears of a regional escalation following an apparent Israeli attack on an Iranian embassy in Syria last week.