Huge blast was heard inside the Somali capital of Mogadishu, local media reported on Wednesday. Multiple videos of the blast were shared online showing plumes of a thick-white smoke rising in the sky...

A mother in western Afghanistan faces the prospect of having to hand over her 5-year-old daughter to a man if she can’t pay off a $1,500 debt left by her husband...

South African prosecutors added a terrorism charge Tuesday against a man accused of starting a fire earlier this month that gutted parts of the country’s parliament in the city of Cape Town...

The number of people in the United States hospitalized with COVID-19 hit a new record Tuesday, according to government data...

Sudan is in the doldrums. It is facing problems right, left and center. The street won't give up, the military won't give up, the power-sharing deal is in tatters because of the resignation of its civilian prime minister and the country might be on t...

The trial over a defamation lawsuit brought by Benjamin Netanyahu against Ehud Olmert opened Monday with reprimands from the judge against both former Israeli prime ministers...

A military court in Myanmar sentenced deposed civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Monday to an additional four years in prison for illegally possessing walkie-talkies and violating COVID-19 health restrictions...

Russian citizens have been evacuated from Kazakhstan on military planes amid unrest in the country which President Vladimir Putin has blamed on 'bandits and terrorists' trained abroad...

At least 17 people were killed during an airstrike on war-torn Tigray region, aid workers revealed citing witnesses and local authorities...

Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian has arrived in Qatar on the second leg of his regional tour with the intention of advancing the Iranian administration’s policy of establishing closer ties with neighboring countries...

The death of the writer and poet Baktash Abtin in custody is emblematic of the dire situation Iranian authorities have created for imprisoned critics of the government, Human Rights Watch said today...

A group of the United Nations experts have strongly urged the US to act on its promise to close down its detention center at Cuba’s Guantanamo Bay, calling the facility’s 2002-present period of operation “an ugly chapter of unrelenting human ri...

An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.5 was registered in Sulaymaniyah governorate, east of Iraq’s Kurdistan Region, on Monday, with no immediate reports of injuries or damage, Iraq’s state news agency said citing the Ministry of Transport...

Egypt’s Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry has contracted COVID-19, a Foreign Ministry source has confirmed...

Life in Kazakhstan's commercial capital Almaty is gradually returning to normal after days of countrywide protests, officials said on Sunday...

David Sassoli, president of the European Parliament, died early Tuesday morning. He was 65. “The @EP_President David Sassoli passed away at 1...

Libya occupies a sensitive position for the security of Arab and European countries and in managing the Mediterranean region’s migration flows...

Israeli forces have attacked Palestinians taking part in a protest in support of Nasser Abu Hamid, a cancer patient held in Israeli jails, as his health condition seriously deteriorates...

ALBAWABA - Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas starts his 17th year in government. He continues to serve as the President of the Palestinian Authority based in Ramallah...

Sudanese security forces killed a protester and wounded dozens on Sunday as they violently dispersed thousands of demonstrators in the capital cities of Khartoum, Khartoum North, and Omdurman...