assassinations

August 18, 2018, 5:05 pm

Head of Syrian intel’s ‘Palestine Department’ said assassinated

Ahmad Issa Habib reportedly shot in head by unknown assailants; he was responsible for 'the struggle against Israel'

By TOI staff

Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh (L) and Hamas leader in the Gaza Strip Yahya Sinwar attend a rally marking the 30th anniversary of the terror group's founding in Gaza City, on December 14, 2017. (AFP Photo/Mohammed Abed)

August 9, 2018, 10:08 pm

Egypt said to warn Hamas: Israel will renew assassinations if fire persists

Terror group's leaders have reportedly turned off their phones, gone underground over fears of targeted killings by Israeli military

By TOI staff

In this March 24, 2010 file photo a Palestinian youth walks out of a store covered with posters of of assassinated Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, one of the founders of Hamas military wing, near his family house in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip. (AP/Adel Hana)

August 8, 2018, 4:01 am

Are Israel’s alleged assassinations a silver bullet or can they miss the mark?

Israel has reportedly ramped up targeted killings, including a Syrian scientist slain Saturday, as a way of taking care of terrorists and scaring others, but it doesn't always work

By Ron Kampeas

August 7, 2018, 8:55 am

Top Middle East intel official says Mossad behind killing of Syrian rocket chief

New York Times quotes senior figure from intelligence agency in the region; Israeli cabinet minister refuses to comment on report but says it's a 'good thing' Aziz Azbar is dead

By TOI staff and Agencies

August 5, 2018, 8:52 pm

Syrian paper blames Mossad for killing top missile expert; Israel mum

Reports say Aziz Azbar, blown up by bomb in his car, was an expert in rocket systems, in charge of improving the range and accuracy of the Assad regime's Scud missiles

By AP and TOI staff

Illustrative: Algerians walk past a portrait of Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika in the capital Algiers on May 2, 2017. (AP Photo/ Toufik Doudou)

July 22, 2018, 10:53 pm

Gazan scientist, doctor said found dead in Algeria

Some claim the pair were assassinated, following the recent killings of 2 Hamas scientists overseas; other reports say they died in an accident

By TOI staff

In this May 9, 1968 file photo, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy speaks to the delegates of the United Auto Workers at a convention hall in Atlantic City, N.J. The seventh child of Joseph and Rose Kennedy was named U.S. attorney general after his brother's election in 1960. He was elected U.S. senator from New York in 1964. In 1968, during his campaign for the presidency, he was shot and killed in Los Angeles, moments after winning the California Democratic primary. (AP Photo, File)

June 7, 2018, 2:54 am

50 years on, Robert F. Kennedy Jr wants new probe of father’s assassination

Diaries in which Palestinian-born Sirhan Sirhan had written 'RFK Must Die' were entered as evidence along with a motive of supposed hatred for Kennedy's support for Israel

By Chris Lefkow

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat (right) hold a press conference at the Mamilla Hotel in Jerusalem, February 23, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

June 5, 2018, 10:45 am

Shin Bet says it thwarted plot to assassinate prime minister, Jerusalem mayor

East Jerusalem man, 2 accomplices arrested for allegedly planning 'significant terror attacks' on behalf of Syria-based group

By Judah Ari Gross

Flowers are placed under a picture of 41-year-old anti-Kremlin reporter Arkady Babchenko on the memorial wall of Moscow's journalists house on May 30, 2018, until his death was revealed to have been faked. (AFP PHOTO / Vasily MAXIMOV)

May 31, 2018, 3:52 pm

Ukraine under pressure after faking journalist’s death

Stunt aimed at capturing would-be murderer angers press freedom groups, draws ire of Moscow; 'slain' journalist plans to 'die at 96 after dancing on Putin's grave'

By AFP and TOI staff

Anti-Kremlin Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko speaks during a press conference at the Ukrainian Security Service in Kiev on May 30, 2018. (AFP/Sergei Supinsky)

May 30, 2018, 7:51 pm

Anti-Putin journalist alive; Ukraine faked his death to catch would-be assassin

Kiev announces arrest of man suspected of preparing to kill Arkady Babchenko; press watchdog slams 'pathetic stunt'

By Oleksandr SAVOCHENKO and Ania TSOUKANOVA

Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko on November 14, 2017 in Kiev, Ukraine. (AFP Photo/Vitaliy Nosach)

May 30, 2018, 1:12 pm

Ukraine blames Russia for murder of exiled Putin critic

Journalist Arkady Babchenko, who briefly lived in Israel after fleeing Moscow, becomes latest Russian dissident killed in unexplained circumstances

By Oleksandr SAVOCHENKO and Ania TSOUKANOVA

Members of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, hold a banner bearing a portrait of one of their leaders, Mohamed Zoari, who was killed in Tunisia, during a ceremony in his memory on December 18, 2016, in Gaza City.
(AFP PHOTO / MAHMUD HAMS)

May 2, 2018, 5:42 pm

One of two suspects behind 2016 hit on Hamas engineer said arrested in Croatia

Hamas and Hezbollah say Mossad agents were responsible for killing drone mastermind Mohammed Zouari in Tunisia

By TOI staff

Yossi Cohen, the head of the Mossad, is seen in a committee meeting at the Israeli parliament on December 8, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

May 2, 2018, 12:09 pm

Israel’s Mossad spy agency shrouded in mystery and mystique

Netanyahu's dramatic display of materials about Iran's nuclear program, seized from Tehran, marked rare case of Israel going public about an operation of its top secret spy agency

By Aron Heller

An image shows a suspect of killing of a Palestinian member of Hamas released by Royal Malaysia Police during a press conference at police headquarter in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, April 25, 2018. (Royal Malaysia Police via AP)

April 25, 2018, 9:33 am

Malaysian police release photo of suspect in killing of Hamas rocket expert

Wanted men likely still in the country, say cops, who admit they have yet to identify the assassins in hit blamed on Mossad

By Stuart Winer and TOI staff

Palestinians gather in mourning outside the family home of 35-year-old professor and Hamas member Fadi Mohammad al-Batsh, who was killed early in the day in Malaysia, in Jabalia in the northern Gaza strip on April 21, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / MAHMUD HAMS)

April 24, 2018, 6:21 pm

Egypt says it will allow Hamas rocket expert’s body into Gaza — report

Cairo said to convey to Jerusalem it remains committed to ensuring the return of Israeli captives held by terror group

By TOI staff and Agencies