The prevailing crisis in Ukraine following a US-backed coup will remain a stain on the reputation of Western governments, an analyst writes in a column for the Press TV website. The killings in East Ukraine by sending in the Right Sector thugs to do the dirty work will be remembered as an example of Western moral bankruptcy, Jim W. Dean wrote. He ...

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 ...

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 ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) The former director of the US Intelligence Agency (CIA) stressed that in the recent nuclear deal in Geneva, Washington has accepted that the Islamic Republic of Iran has the right to enrich uranium. "We have accepted Iranian uranium enrichment," said retired Gen. Michael Haydenon Fox News Sunday, a morning news/talk show. He ...