Khalid Mehdiyev was sent to America to establish a beachhead for his gang. The organization then gave him a mission: Kill Masih Alinejad. By Colin Moynihan Khalid Mehdiyev returned a phone call in ...

The convictions brought some measure of resolution to what U.S. officials have described as an unrelenting retaliation effort ...

Prosecutors say that Iranian officials commissioned two purported Russian gang members to kill journalist and Iranian exile Masih Alinejad.

Khalid Mehdiyev was living in Yonkers and was paid $30K by two mobsters to kill an Iranian dissident, the U.S. Attorney's ...

A lawyer for Polad Omarov — who received gaudy cake gifts touting his status in an eastern European gang — claimed would-be ...

Iranian journalist and murder-for-hire target Masih Alinejad described in court Tuesday the moment she saw her bungling would-be killer staring straight into her eyes through her pristine sunflower ...

Jurors are expected to start deliberating Thursday in the case of two men accused of trying to kill Iranian dissident Masih ...

Two men have been convicted of hiring a Yonkers resident to kill an Iranian American journalist. Khalid Mehdiyev testified at the trial, stating that he bought an AK47 to kill Masih Alinejad in her ...

Khalid Mehdiyev admitted to trying to kill journalist Masih Alinejad. Now he’s testifying against the men he says put him up to it.

The journalist, Masih Alinejad, was targeted for her criticisms of Iran's human rights abuses across the globe.