WASHINGTON, March 9 (Xinhua) -- U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Sunday once again called for Iran's cooperation in finding Robert Levinson, a retired agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) who went missing in the Islamic republic since 2007. "We respectfully ask the government of Iran to work cooperatively with us on the investigation ...

President Obama called on North Korea and Iran to release two Americans held captive since 2012, using an address at the National Prayer Breakfast to demand that foreign nations respect religious freedoms and to declare that the men deserve to be free. Obama said Kenneth Bae, a missionary held in North Korea, and Saeed Abedini, a Christian pastor ...

[caption id="attachment_29783" align="alignright" width="180"] US Secretary of State John Kerry[/caption] Secretary of State John Kerry insisted that the United States had not abandoned former FBI agent Robert Levinson the 65-year-old American who seven years ago went missing in Iran and said he was personally involved in the effort to track him....

Robert A. Levinson was an overweight bear of a man who once worked as an F.B.I. agent and desperately wanted to recapture the life of international intrigue he relished as an expert on Russian organized crime. But as he sat in a hotel room in Geneva in early 2007, he was anxious about a secret mission he had planned to Iran. I guess as I approach ...

WASHINGTON The Obama administration faced intensified pressure Friday to find former CIA contractor Robert Levinson both from lawmakers and the Levinson family nearly seven years after he disappeared in Iran during what now has been revealed as an unofficial spy mission. Levinsons family urged the government to step up and take care of one of its ...

NasimAfter Six years, US officials admitted that the American who went missing in Iran six years ago was working for the CIA and was not in the country on a business trip. In a case that had long been shrouded in secrecy, the Associated Press and The Washington Post published lengthy reports revealing how retired FBI agent Robert Levinson had been ...

US Secretary of State John Kerry has sidestepped questions about a missing agent of the Central Intelligence Agency who was spying in Iran. I dont have any comment whatsoever on the condition with respect to employment or any other issue. Kerry said during a press conference on Friday. The top US diplomat also refrained from acknowledging that ...

(Reuters) - An American with links to the Central Intelligence Agency was investigating suspicions that Iranian government officials were diverting petroleum funds and laundering them throughCanada when he went missing inIranin 2007, a lawyer for his family said on Friday. Robert Levinson, a private detective and former FBI agent, was investigating ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- An American who vanished nearly seven years ago in Iran was working for the CIA on an unapproved intelligence-gathering mission that, when it came to light inside the government, produced one of the most serious scandals in the recent history of the CIA - but all in secret, an Associated Press investigation found. The CIA paid Robert ...