The linked cases of Iranian engineer Mohammad Abedini and Italian reporter Cecilia Sala are the latest flashpoint between ...

Italy’s justice minister on Sunday asked an appeals court to revoke the arrest of an Iranian citizen wanted by the US over a ...

An Italian journalist arrested and jailed in Iran since December has been freed and returned to Rome on Wednesday, even as a ...

After more than three weeks of detention, Cecilia Sala has been released from Tehran's Evin Prison and was met at the airport ...

A plane carrying Cecilia Sala, 29, landed at Rome’s Ciampino airport ... The reporter for the Il Foglio daily was detained in ...

Sala works as a reporter for the Italian daily II Foglio, which announced that the journalist arrived in Rome on Wednesday.

Abedini has been held in a Milan jail since his arrest, with Iran denying the accusations and calling his detention an "illegal act" that risked damaging Rome-Tehran relations. The statement from ...

who was seized in Tehran three days after Abedini was arrested. She returned home on Wednesday. Iran dismissed allegations it had imprisoned her to pressure Rome to release Abedini. For all the ...

Abedini Najafabadi has denied all charges, and officials in Tehran have condemned his detention as politically motivated. Iran’s foreign ministry has summoned the Italian and Swiss ambassadors, ...

ROME (AP) — Italy says plane with journalist Cecilia Sala, detained in Iran since Dec 19, has left Tehran and is bringing her home.

While Washington was hoping for another outcome with Abedini, the agreement between Rome and Tehran appears to have been a classic case of hostage diplomacy — albeit one heightened by the ...

She was arrested in Tehran on December 19 'You have been strong,' Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, right, said in welcoming Cecilia Sala in Rome An Italian journalist arrested and jailed in Iran ...