TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Two Turkish Airlines pilotsabducted near the Beirut airport last August were freed on Saturday. Two Turkish Airlines pilots kidnapped in Beirut in August were freed on Saturday and handed over to Lebanese authorities, the official news agency NNA said. Their release came after nine Lebanese abducted by rebels in Syria 17 months ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran and the Lebanese resistance group, Hezbollah, will likely play a mediating role to help release the two Turkish pilots recently abducted in Beirut, the Lebanese media said on Wednesday. The Lebanese al-Nahar daily quoted informed sources as saying that Hezbollah Secretary-General Seyed Hassan Nasrallah is thought to be taking ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Ankara, once more, asked Tehran to help release the two Turkish pilots abducted recently in the Lebanese capital of Beirut. Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davudoglu, in a phone conversation with his Iranian counterpart Ali Akbar Salehi on Tuesday, voice his concern over the fate of two Turkish pilots abducted in Lebanon by unidentified ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Ankara has called on Tehran to help secure the release of two Turkish pilots abducted in the Lebanese capital of Beirut, media reports said. Turkish Airlines pilot Murat Akpinar and his co-pilot Murat Agca were forced out of a shuttle bus at gunpoint at the Cocodi Bridge, less than a kilometer from Beirut's Rafik Hariri International ...