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 ...
US envoy Steve Witkoff (left) and Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi took part in the talks/ have concluded a first round of talks in Oman over Tehran's nuclear programme - the highest-level meeting between the two nations since 2018. Both countries described the meeting as "constructive" ...
US and Iranian officials have arrived in Oman's capital Muscat to try to reach a new deal over Iran's controversial nuclear programme. Donald Trump pulled the US out of a previous nuclear agreement between Iran and world powers in 2018, and reinstated economic sanctions, angering Iran. Trump has ...
More than 1,500 people are reported killed and nearly 400,000 displaced since Israel resumed fighting last month/ The head of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has told the BBC that Gaza has become "hell on earth", as Israel's military assault there continues. Mirjana ...
Rifaat Radwan filmed the incident in which he and 14 other emergency workers were shot dead by Israeli troops/ "My heart and soul died when Rifaat was killed," says Hajjah Umm Mohammed, the mother of a Palestinian paramedic who was one of 15 emergency workers killed by Israeli troops in southern ...
It was a typical Friday lunchtime in Beirut's southern suburb. Then, a single warning, posted in Arabic on X by a spokesperson for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), triggered panic and chaos in the densely populated area known as Dahieh. "Urgent warning to those in the southern suburb of Beirut," ...
Ahmed Manasra was released on Wednesday after spending nearly 10 years in jail/ A Palestinian man jailed by Israel for an attack when he was 13 has been released after nearly a decade in prison. Surveillance footage showed him and his 15-year-old cousin, Hassan, brandishing large kitchen knives ...
The UN says about 100,000 people fled Rafah after the Israeli military issued an evacuation order last month/ Israel's defence minister has said it will expand its so-called "security zones" in Gaza to include the southern city of Rafah. During a visit to the area, Israel Katz said the military ...
Israeli troops fired more than 100 times during an attack in which they killed 15 emergency workers in Gaza, with some shots from as close as 12m (39ft) away, a forensic audio analysis of mobile phone footage commissioned by BBC Verify has found. Two audio experts examined a 19-minute video ...
Hundreds of thousands have been forced from their homes in Sudan and fled across the border to Chad/ The International Court of Justice (ICJ) is hearing a case brought by Sudan accusing the United Arab Emirates (UAE) of being "complicit in the genocide" during the current civil war. The two-year ...
Israel's military air power, used extensively in the Gaza war, relies heavily on reservist pilots/ Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected criticism of the Gaza war by some air force reservists, calling it "unforgivable". The Israeli military said it would dismiss serving ...