Prosecutors say that Rafat Amirov and Polad Omarov took “blood money” from the Iranian government to assassinate journalist and activist Masih Alinejad on U.S. soil. They claimed that Alinejad’s ...

Rafat Amirov and Poland Omarov, purported members of the Russian gang “Thieves in Law,” are standing trial for setting the murder for hire in motion. According to U.S. prosecutors, they did so on ...

And you will hear all of that from Ms. Alinejad herself,” he said. On trial on a murder-for-hire count and other charges are Rafat Amirov and Polad Omarov, natives of Azerbaijan, which shares a border ...

Rafat Amirov, left, and Polad Omarov. Amirov and Omarov are members of the “Thieves in Law” enterprise, one of Russia’s oldest organized crime gangs, which originated in Soviet dictator ...

On trial on a murder-for-hire count and other charges are Rafat Amirov and Polad Omarov, natives of Azerbaijan, which shares a border and cultural ties with Iran. The prosecutor told jurors that ...

The first Fikrat Amirov Republican Music Festival has come to an end, Azernews reports. The closing ceremony took place at Azerbaijan State Academic Philharmonic Hall. The festival was organized by ...

Prosecutors say Mehdiyev was hired by the associates Rafat Amirov and Polad Omarov to kill Masih Alinejad, a New York-based journalist who left Iran in 2009 and is known for outspoken criticism of ...

The officers then found an AK-47-style assault rifle inside the man’s vehicle. Prosecutors said Mr. Amirov and Mr. Omarov, whom they have described as members of a Russian criminal organization ...

The federal trial of two suspects kicked off Monday after the pair were charged in a thwarted plot to kill a U.S.-based critic of the Iranian government on behalf of the Islamic Republic.

On Monday, the men accused of directing the activity — Russian mobsters Rafat Amirov and Polad Omarov — are set to stand trial in Federal District Court in Manhattan. They are charged with ...

Federal prosecutors say Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard Corps in 2021 hired Rafat Amirov and Polad Omarov, members of a "Russian mob" sub-group, to kill an Iranian American journalist and ...