A building partially collapsed in the Miami suburb of Surfside, Florida, early Tuesday morning, the Miami Dade Fire Department reported on Twitter...

A total of 81 local and international non-governmental organizations (NGOs) carrying out aid work in Syria issued a joint statement Wednesday rejecting Russia's intention to block aid to the country, which is in the midst of a civil war...

US President Joe Biden announced a "comprehensive strategy" Wednesday to combat gun violence and other crimes across the country, which has been hit by a surge in shootings since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic...

Al Bawaba's DC Insider Speaks with Jim Hanson, President of Security Studies Group, on the ousting of Netanyahu   Jim Hanson (Courtesy of Twitter) The Israeli Parliament approved right-wing nationalist Naftali Bennett to become the nex...

Iran’s newly elected president, Ebrahim Raisi, signaled in a speech this week that he wants Iran and the U...

Human rights groups and United Nations agencies are accusing a Dutch supply ship of taking part in an “illegal pushback” to Libya of migrants rescued in the Mediterranean...

The US Embassy in Libya said Wednesday that Secretary of State Antony Blinken will stress during the second Berlin Conference the importance of holding the Libyan elections as scheduled on Dec...

A Russian fighter jet and a military ship fired warning shots at British Royal Navy destroyer HMS Defender near Crimea on Wednesday...

Lebanon, which has for decades relied on outside powers to help solve its problems, is again waiting for "a savior" to pull it from its worst political and financial crisis since the 1975-90 civil war...

At least 134 Afghan soldiers fleeing a Taliban attack have crossed the border and taken refuge in Tajikistan, officials said early Wednesday...

India surpassed the 30 million mark in COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, registering 50,848 additional infections in the last 24 hours, according to the latest data released by the Ministry of Health...

US President Joe Biden has not changed a single policy of his predecessor Donald Trump on Cuba, said the president of the US-Cuba Trade and Economic Council...

Hong Kong's pro-democracy Apple Daily newspaper will publish its final edition on Thursday after police arrested five editors and executives and froze £1...

Afghanistan’s main crossing with Tajikistan remains under the Taliban’s control as the armed group continues its sweeping offensive across the country...

The British Committee for Iran Freedom (BCFIF) on Tuesday urged the UK government to reject newly elected Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and campaign for him to face justice for human rights abuses...

Thousands of asylum-seekers whose claims were dismissed or denied under a Trump administration policy that forced them to wait in Mexico for their court hearings will be allowed to return for another chance at humanitarian protection, the Homeland Se...

The Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF), or Hashed Al-Shaabi, have been trying unsuccessfully for two weeks to organise an official military parade in Baghdad on the anniversary of the PMF’s creation, amid deepening differences between its commander,...

Kuwait’s parliament approved the 2021-22 state budget on Tuesday but failed to quell a bad-tempered standoff between government and opposition that has blocked economic reforms and hampered decision-making at the Gulf state’s sovereign wealth fun...

Twelve COVID-19 deaths and 504 virus cases were recorded in the Kingdom on Tuesday, increasing the caseload to 747,504, the government announced...

Jewish settlers, backed by Israeli police and accompanied by member of the Knesset Bezalel Smotrich (Religious Zionism) stormed the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah and threatened three Palestinian families that they will be forcibly expe...