Tag: Hezbollah

• Friday, November 16th 2018 - 11:59 UTC

  Two brothers arrested in Buenos Aires likely to be linked to Hezbollah

  

  Federal Police Thursday arrested in Buenos Aires two brothers suspected to belong to a local Hezbollah cell. A sizeable number of guns with focus on sniper capabilities and proper ammunition were found at the home of one of them in the Floresta neighbourhood.

• Saturday, September 22nd 2018 - 06:49 UTC

  Police arrests alleged leading Hezbollah financier in the triple border of Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay

  

  Brazilian police on Friday arrested a Lebanese citizen on suspicions of raising funds for Lebanon-based Shiite military group Hezbollah, which the United States considers a terrorist group.

• Friday, May 20th 2016 - 11:23 UTC

  Six presidents asked to testify of ex president Menem's son death in 1995

  

  An Argentine court on Wednesday asked six former presidents to testify in the investigation into the 1995 death of the son of ex-president Carlos Menem. The court requested the testimony of Fernando de la Rúa, Ramón Puerta, Adolfo Rodríguez Saá, Eduardo Camaño, Eduardo Duhalde and Cristina Fernández. All followed Menem as presidents after his 1989-1999 rule.

• Friday, October 16th 2015 - 08:19 UTC

  Argentina's Supreme Court issues international arrest warrants for Hezbollah members

  

  Argentina's Supreme Court of Justice issued on Thursday an international arrest warrant against Hussein Mohamad Ibrahim Suleiman, who is being investigated for his involvement in the 1992 attack against the Embassy of Israel in Buenos Aires, which killed 29 people and injured more than 200.

• Monday, March 16th 2015 - 10:39 UTC

  Israel newspaper questions Nisman’s accusations against Cristina Fernandez and Timerman

  

  Israeli newspaper Haaretz has published an article questioning the criminal accusation filed by late AMIA prosecutor Alberto Nisman against Argentine President Cristina Fernández and Foreign minister Hector Timerman, while asserting that the official's handling of the case was far from exemplary.

• Friday, March 6th 2015 - 08:08 UTC

  “Nisman did not commit suicide, Nisman was murdered” concludes independent forensic report

  

  The ex-wife of late special prosecutor Alberto Nisman, who was found fatally shot in his Buenos Aires apartment on Jan. 18, hours before he was supposed to brief Argentina's Congress about his accusations against President Cristina Fernandez, said Thursday that an independent forensic report shows that he was murdered.

• Friday, January 23rd 2015 - 06:51 UTC

  Nisman's death not suicide but a plot against her government, alleges Cristina Fernandez

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernandez on Thursday morning took to social media once again to express her thoughts on the death of AMIA special prosecutor Alberto Nisman making reference to “the suicide which -I am sure- was not a suicide.”

• Thursday, January 15th 2015 - 05:32 UTC

  Argentine president accused of 'covering up' Iran's role in Buenos Aires deadly attack

  

  An Argentine federal special prosecutor on Wednesday accused President Cristina Fernandez of seeking to cover up the involvement of Iran in a 1994 terrorist attack on a Jewish cultural center in Buenos Aires that claimed 85 lives and 300 injured.

• Tuesday, August 5th 2014 - 07:03 UTC

  Iran officials admit supplying missile technology to Hamas to wipe out Israel

  

  Two senior Iranian officials told an Arabic-language television channel on Monday that Tehran has supplied missile technology to Hamas for its fight against Israel. Revolutionary Guard commander Mohammad Ali Jafari warned in an interview with the Arabic channel of Iran's state Al-Alam television that Palestinian resistance to Israeli aggression is “endless and growing.”

• Saturday, November 9th 2013 - 18:38 UTC

  Suriname president's son charged in US with providing support for terrorist groups

  

  The son of Suriname's president has been charged by the United States with attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization. Dino Bouterse was allegedly paid millions of dollars to provide a base and weapons for Hezbollah fighters.