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 ...
Jumaa Zawayda was ordered by Israeli forces to leave his home/ On the night Israeli forces entered Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank and began ordering its 20,000 Palestinian residents to leave their homes, 66-year-old Jumaa Zawayda said he would refuse. "My family all left but I told ...
A Syrian TV channel said the Israeli strike hit an empty area near the presidential palace, which is on a hill in north-west Damascus/ Israel says its fighter jets bombed an area next to the presidential palace in Syria's capital, Damascus, as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to ...
Anera's community kitchens in Khan Younis feeds some 6,000 people each day/ A hot meal is hard to come by in the Gaza Strip, but a lunch for needy families in the south is about to be delivered by donkey and cart. Today's dish is koshari - made with lentils, rice and a zesty tomato sauce - in a ...
This garden shop in Mesilat Zion was left charred and in ruins/ Fires that have ravaged large parts of central Israel since Wednesday have largely been extinguished, the country's Fire and Rescue Authority says. More than 150 teams have been battling the blaze, which has scorched around 20 sq km ...
The spiritual leader of Syria's Druze community condemned the violence as an "unjustifiable genocidal campaign"/ Deadly clashes between Islamist armed factions, security forces and fighters from the Druze religious minority near Damascus are another sign of the continuing fragility of the ...
Police were forced to back down from a proposed ban on displaying images of children killed in Gaza at a Tel Aviv protest last month/ Israel's war in Gaza grinds on, but opposition is growing. In recent weeks, thousands of Israeli reservists – from all branches of the military – have signed ...
An national emergency has been called in Israel as strong winds and high temperatures have fuelled wildfires outside of Jerusalem. Fire crews have been battling the blazes, with several people reported to be suffering from burns and smoke inhalation, according to Magen David Adom, Israel's ...
Gunmen at a funeral on Wednesday for people killed in clashes between Syria's Druze community and security forces/ Israel's military chief has said his force struck "operatives" who attacked civilians from the Druze community on the outskirts of Damascus, after an outbreak of deadly sectarian ...
The strikes were carried out by RAF Typhoon jets armed with guided missiles/ The UK has launched air strikes against Houthi targets in Yemen for the first time since US President Donald Trump returned to the White House. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) said Royal Air Force (RAF) Typhoon fighter ...
Samoudi has been detained in an Israeli forces raid in Jenin/ The Palestinian Journalists' Syndicate has condemned the arrest of a prominent local journalist by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank. Ali al-Samoudi, who has worked extensively with Western media, was detained during a raid on ...