Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) Afghans and people who do not conform to rigid gender norms in Afghanistan have faced an increasingly desperate situation and grave threats to their safety and lives under the Taliban, Human Rig...

A snow squall is expected to grip the Kingdom Wednesday evening, bringing strong gusty winds and dumping as much as 20 centimeters of snow in the highlands across the country...

  Israel’s President Isaac Herzog will make a historic visit to the UAE at the end of the month, his office said Tuesday, in the latest high-profile diplomatic trip since the countries normalized ties...

Families in Afghanistan are being forced to sell their children and their kidneys as more than half the population is having serious difficulties meeting basic food needs...

In fact, António Guterres added, when explosive weapons are used in populated areas, around 90 per cent of those killed and injured, play no part in instigating the violence...

ALBAWABA - This piece of Covid news item is trending in many of the local websites in Jordan. Its going full speed ahead on the social media...

Strategic thinker Major General Samir Farag, praised the visit of Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune to Egypt, referring to the possibility of Algeria’s mediation in the GERD crisis with Ethiopia...

When tens of thousands of young people took to the streets of Baghdad and towns and cities across southern and central Iraq in late 2019, one core demand resonated louder than any other — employment opportunities...

Almost 180,000 migrants attempting to cross the border from Mexico were detained by the US border authorities in December, according to official figures published on Monday, bringing the total number of detentions at the US southern border in 2021 to...

Former Prime Minister Fouad Saniora expressed on Tuesday his support for ex-PM Saad Hariri in a statement on social media...

Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh has warned of escalating violence by extremist Israeli settlers against Palestinians and their properties across the occupied West Bank, condemning their attacks against local communities in the occupied t...

ALBAWABA - US President Joe Biden is in the news again for appearing to what looks like as having a go at one of the members of the American media...

Former world heavyweight boxing champion and Mayor of Kiev Vitali Klitschko has accused Germany of 'betraying' Ukraine over its support of a Russian gas pipeline and refusal to export arms to his country...

The Taliban will push to have $10billion in assets unfrozen by the US as they begin their first official talks with western diplomats since they took control of Afghanistan last year...

Mediators need to take into account the lessons learned in Libya in the past two years and focus on “creating milestones” for the country’s political transition, rather than fixating on the time frame involved, according to Elham Saudi, co-foun...

A large-scale power blackouts hit Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, Tuesday, AFP reported. #BREAKING Central Asia hit by large-scale power blackout: AFP pic...

Roughly 1,000 tents used by the UN to shelter internally-displaced persons in northwest Syria have collapsed or been badly damaged by snow, an official said on Monday...

Burkina Faso’s president resigned Monday, hours after a military junta seized power in a coup.  In his handwritten letter addressed to the new junta administration, Roch Marc Christian Kabore wrote that after the events that took place since ...

ALBAWABA - News is buzzing. The ex-prime minister Saad Hariri has just announced, Monday, that he will not be running in the upcoming Lebanese parliamentary elections due to be held in May...

ALBAWABA - German police say that a man with a gun went in a lecture hall at the University of Heidelberg and shot several people...