The Justice Department on Tuesday charged a Pakistani national with alleged ties to Iran with attempting to orchestrate a hit on political figures in the U.S. — reportedly including former ...

Pakistani national Asif Merchant, 46, is alleged to be part of an Iranian-backed murder-for-hire plot to assassinate a politician, believed by FBI officials to be former President Donald Trump or ...

Pakistani man charged in alleged murder-for-hire plot against Trump, U.S. officials 02:21. A Pakistani national with alleged ties to Iran was arrested and charged with plotting a murder-for-hire ...

The Justice Department has charged a Pakistani man who has alleged ties to the Iranian government with seeking to carry out political assassinations, a case that prompted the US government to ...

The Justice Department said on Tuesday that it had charged a Pakistani man who had recently visited Iran with trying to hire a hit man to assassinate political figures in the U.S. Investigators ...

Asif Merchant flew from Pakistan to the U.S. to find hitmen, prosecutors said. A Pakistani national with purported ties to Iran was arrested last month on charges he plotted to assassinate former ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Pakistani man alleged to have ties to Iran has been charged in a plot to carry out political assassinations on U.S. soil, including potentially of former President Donald Trump.

A Pakistani national with alleged close ties to Iran pleaded not guilty on Monday to charges accusing him of plotting to have U.S. politicians assassinated on U.S. soil. Asif Merchant, also known ...

Pakistani man with ties to Iran charged in foiled assassination plot potentially targeting Trump, DOJ says Asif Merchant, 46, allegedly worked with a supposed hit man to try and kill a political ...

Iranian officials have denied trying, but multiple alleged conspirators linked to Tehran have been charged over attempted ...

A Pakistani man with alleged ties to Iran has been charged in the United States in connection with a foiled plot to assassinate a U.S. politician or government officials, the Justice Department ...