Washington (AFP) - The CIA and Israel's spy agency Mossad were behind an elaborate plot to kill Hezbollah commander Imad Mughniyeh in a 2008 car bomb attack in Syria, the Washington Post reported. Citing former intelligence officials, the newspaper reported that US and Israeli spy agencies worked together to target Mughniyeh on February 12, 2008 as ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- A Muslim group announced on Monday that it has launched a successful cyber attack on the servers of the Saudi Army in retaliation for its role in the recent assassination of Hezbollah commander Hassan Hawlo Lakkis. The group which calls itself, the Cyber Resistance Group, said it has hacked the Saudi army's servers and extracted ...

BEIRUT A surge of diplomacy and an outburst of violence in the days sinceworld powers reached a deal with Iranillustrate both the promise and the peril of what could be the start of a more peaceful era in the Middle East or the beginning of a new round of bloodletting. Theassassination of a senior Hezbollah leaderin the suburbs of Beirut offered ...

A selection of the latest news stories and editorials published in Iranian news outlets, compiled by AEI Critical Threats Project Iran Analyst Will Fulton and Iran Intern Amir Toumaj, with contributors John Lesnewich and Mehrdad Moarefian. (E) = Article in English Excerpts of these translations may only be used with the expressed consent of ...

The Islamic Republic of Iran has condemned the latest assassination of senior commander of Lebanons resistance movement Hezbollah, Hassan Hawlo al-Lakkis, outside his home south of the Lebanese capital, Beirut. Given the prominent role of this martyr in the defeats [suffered by] the Zionist regime [of Israel] against the Islamic resistance [movement],...

Daily look at Iran's late-breaking news and upcoming events:   White House urges Congress not to pass any new sanctions on Iran The Obama Administration has urged the US Congress to hold off on new sanctions against Iran as this could jeopardise the recently negotiated deal on the Iranian nuclear weapons program.   Envoy stresses Tehrans ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) An Iranian deputy foreign minister considered Israel as the mastermind of the Tuesday night assassination of a Lebanese Hezbollah Movement commander near Beirut. Hezbollah commander Hassan al-Lakkiswas shot dead near his home southeast of the Lebanese capital, with the group blaming Israel for his assassination. Al Mayadin satellite ...

JERUSALEM:Israelon Wednesday denied allegations byHezbollahthat it was behind the assassination of one of the Lebanese Shiite movement's top commanders near Beirut. "This is yet another Pavlovian response from Hezbollah, which makes automatic accusations (against Israel) before even thinking about what's actually happened," Israel's foreign ministry ...

The killing of Hassan Lakkis, a senior Hezbollah official, was done by Israel, the militant movement charged in a statement. Lakkiswas killed overnight outside his home in the Hadath districtin Beirut as he was returning from work, the statement said. Hezbollah described Lakkis as"one of the leaders of the Islamic resistance"against Israel and ...