Ahmed Barakat (circled) attends the funeral of Halla and Orouba Barakat on Sept. 23, 2017, in Istanbul. A distant relative, he was the only suspect indicted for and later convicted of the women ...

Ahmed Barakat (circled) attends the funeral of Halla and Orouba Barakat on Sept. 23, 2017, in Istanbul. A distant relative, he was the only suspect indicted for and later convicted of the women’s ...

By then, Turkish authorities had arrested and secured a confession from a distant relative named Ahmed Barakat, who had been working for Orouba since arriving in Turkey from Syria six months earlier.

BARAKAT AHMED BARAKAT: (Through interpreter) There was nothing suspicious at all. We kept moving normally. There was nothing ahead of us on the road. Suddenly, I felt something hit us.

When Halla Barakat and her mother were murdered in Istanbul in 2017, a Turkish investigation blamed a family dispute. ... Turkish authorities had arrested and secured a confession from a distant ...

In 2004, Barakat’s brother, Assad Ahmad Barakat, was named by the Treasury Department as one of Hezbollah’s “most prominent and influential members” and was believed to have used an ...

Cousins Khaled Mustafa Qurmo, 27, and Khaled Abdel Majid Qurmo, 30, were driving their friend home on Oct. 26 when helicopters fired at their van, according to the friend, Barakat Ahmad Barakat ...

Brazilian police on Friday arrested a fugitive whom U.S. authorities have accused of serving as Hezbollah's financier and who has repeatedly been accused of illegal activity in a lawless border ...

Barakat Ahmad Barakat, 39, poses in front of his house in the Syrian village of Hatan on June 24. Barakat sustained injuries from U.S. airstrikes during the 2019 raid on the hideout of ISIS leader ...