The country’s Revolutionary Court has proceedings “ongoing” over Robert A. Levinson, a former F.B.I. agent who vanished in Iran in 2007, a filing to the United Nations revealed./ DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iran is acknowledging for the first time that it has an open case before its ...
acknowledged for the first time in a filing with the that there is an “on going case” in the Public Prosecution and Revolutionary Court of Tehran for retired agent Robert Levinson, who went missing in the country during an unauthorized mission in 2007, stoking questions about his disappearance./ ...
In this March 6, 2012, file photo, an FBI poster showing a composite image of former FBI agent Robert Levinson, right, of how he would look like now after five years in captivity, and an image, center, taken from the video, released by his kidnappers, and a picture before he was kidnapped, left, ...
of the beginning of the Iran hostage crisis. It was on Nov. 4, 1979, that revolutionary Iranian students breached the walls of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, taking diplomats hostage, and ultimately holding 52 of them for the next 444 days./ While the ordeal for the embassy hostages is now in the ...
Smoke rises over western Deir al-Balah during an Israeli offensive on Monday/ The World Health Organization (WHO) says Israel's offensive in central Gaza has compromised its efforts to continue working, after its facilities came under attack. The UN agency accused Israeli forces of attacking a ...
Palestinians pictured carrying aid supplies in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza, on Sunday/ The Israeli military has killed at least 67 people waiting for UN aid lorries in northern Gaza, the territory's Hamas-run health ministry says. The UN World Food Programme said its 25-truck convoy "encountered ...
Syrian military and security forces in Suweida. Photo: 15 July 2025/ The Syrian presidency says it will deploy a new force to halt the deadly sectarian clashes between Bedouin and Druze fighters in the south of the country. Syrian interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa's office urged "all parties to ...
Dozens of bodies recovered from homes and streets in Suweida city were brought to a local hospital on Thursday/ The UN human rights chief says his office has received credible reports indicating widespread violations and abuses, including summary executions and arbitrary killings, during the ...
A medic and other men walk past the bodies of those killed in the fighting at a hospital in Suweida city/ Over the last five days, Rima says she has witnessed "barbaric" scenes. The 45-year-old Druze woman has lived in the southern Syrian city of Suweida her whole life, and never thought her ...
The fighting was sparked by a dispute between the Bedouin and Druze communities/ A monitoring group says 594 people have been killed during the recent violence in southern Syria that took on a sectarian dimension. The UK-based Syrian Observatory of Human Rights (SOHR) documented a significant ...
Several people were injured, including the parish priest, and three killed after an Israeli strike hit the Holy Family Church/ Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said his country "deeply regrets that a stray ammunition" hit Gaza's only Catholic Church, killing three people sheltering ...
Father Gabriele Romanelli was among those who needed medical treatment/ Pope Leo XIV has renewed his call for a Gaza ceasefire after three people sheltering in the Catholic church in Gaza City were killed in an Israeli strike. A telegram said the Pope was "deeply saddened to learn of the loss of ...
A fire that tore through a five-storey shopping centre in the eastern Iraqi city of Kut has left at least 61 dead, local officials said. The blaze at the mall, which opened seven days ago, broke out on Wednesday night and has since been brought under control. Videos posted on social media showed ...
BBC Middle East correspondent Lina Sinjab reports from Damascus, Syria showing the damaged Ministry of Defence headquarters following airstrikes by Israeli forces on Wednesday. Israel's military struck ministry in Damascus and government forces in southern Syria for a third day on Wednesday, as ...