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Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks during a meeting at the IRGC Aerospace Force achievements exhibition in Tehran, Iran November 19, 2023.

Iran paid $200,000 for failed assassination of Azerbaijani rabbi

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Japanese court orders dissolution of 'Moonies’ church following Abe assassination investigation.

Japanese court orders dissolution of 'Moonies’ church following Abe assassination investigation

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Defendants Polad Omarev and Rafat Amirov watch as Masih Alinejad, a New York-based journalist who left Iran in 2009 and is known for outspoken criticism of the government in Tehran and its treatment of women, reacts during questioning during their trial at a courtroom in New York, U.S., March 10, 2

Jury convicts men after foiled Iran-funded assassination attempt of journalist

By DANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD

President John F. Kennedy signs a proclamation for the interdiction of the delivery of offensive weapons to Cuba during the Cuban missile crisis, at the White House in Washington in this handout photograph taken on October 23, 1962

Declassified JFK assassination files reveal Oswald's Soviet ties

By REUTERS

IDF soldiers operate in Jenin

Breakdown in Gaza ceasefire talks could trigger IDF 'high-level' assassinations

By LIRAN HARONI , JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and the neighbourhood of Dahiyeh, Beirut. Illustrative.

IDF releases footage of assassination of Nasrallah on day of funeral

By YONAH JEREMY BOB

U.S. President Donald Trump holds a signed executive order on AI, in the Oval Office of the White House, in Washington, U.S., January 23, 2025.

'Everything will be revealed': Trump signs order to declassify files on JFK, MLK assassinations

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

‘A MONSTER’ – Members of the IRGC attend a ground forces military drill in the East Azerbaijan province of Iran in 2022.

EU must designate IRGC as a terror organization

By AIDIN PANAHI , ANDREW GHALILI

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei prays over the bodies of two assassinated Supreme Court Judges, Mohammad Moghiseh and Ali Razini in Tehran, Iran, January 19, 2025.

Did Khamenei wear a bulletproof vest at funeral of assassinated judges?

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

45 years after the assassination: New evidence surfaces in Palermo Mafia hit case

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

A Houthi follower wears a vest portraying the Houthi leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi during a parade held as part of a 'popular army' mobilization campaign by the movement, in Sanaa, Yemen February 7, 2024.

Israel should strike Houthi leadership, anti-Houthi Yemeni figures say

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Irwin Cotler participates in the Organization of American States (OAS) news conference with a panel of independent international experts who will present their conclusions and recommendations on "whether crimes against humanity have been committed in Venezuela, in Washington, US, May 29, 2018.

Canada foils Iranian plot to assassinate pro-Israel human rights lawyer

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Donald Trump pumps his fist as he is rushed offstage during a rally on July 13 in Butler, Pennsylvania after an assassination attempt by Thomas Matthew Crooks.

'Zionist conspiracy': Tehran denies US claims of Iranian plot to kill Donald Trump

By REUTERS

Israel Police operate in Sheikh Jarrah in east Jerusalem amid violent clashes, February 13, 2022

Iranian spy cell busted: Shin Bet arrests two Israelis in assassination plot

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF , ALON HACHMON , AMIR BOHBOT

Conceptual image of war between Israel and Iran using chess pieces and national flags

Shin Bet thwarts significant Iranian assassination attempts on Israeli citizens

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Smoke billows over Beirut's southern suburbs, as seen from Sin El Fil, IAF aircraft (illustration)

Inside Israel's operation: Step-by-step breakdown of how Nasrallah was eliminated

REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL nominee and former US president Donald Trump attends a rally .

Trump briefed on alleged assassination threats by Iran following Ryan Routh's conviction

By REUTERS , JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Israel Police at the scene of an explosion in southern Tel Aviv, August 18, 2024.

Police arrest two Hadera residents for allegedly attempting assassination of intelligence target

By SHLOMI GABAI