ALBAWABA - The Russian man who helped to bring an end to the Cold War and the final collapse of the Soviet Union has died...

The death toll of Pakistan's catastrophic flooding is rising steadily, with 1,162 people, including 384 children and 231 women, died due to flooding since mid-June, German press agency (dpa) reported...

Naseer Ahmad Faiq, Charge d'Affaires of Afghanistan Permanent Mission to the UN, said that the prospects for a prosperous and secure Afghanistan are "bleak and opaque", local media reported...

The Prime Minister of Somalia, Hamsa Abdi Barre, who is in Tunis, Tunisia, is holding meetings with the various leaders who participated in the African Development Conference that was concluded in the country...

Iraqi Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has appeared in a press conference on Tuesday calling his supporters to withdraw from the demonstrations saying that they have 60 minutes to leave the protests...

Expressing concern over the ongoing protests in Iraq after the supporters of Muqtada al-Sadr and the security forces clashed as the Shi'ite cleric announced quitting politics, the European Union urged all the parties to exercise restraint "to prevent...

ALBAWABA - Shia leader Muqtada Al Sadr has resigned but says he has also gone on hunger strike to stop the violence against his people, thousands of whom are going across Baghdad and have ransacked the presidential palace, the seat of government...

Iran announced closing its all borders with Iraq until further notice amid clashes in the Green Zone, Baghdad which started on Monday after the political resignation of the Shiite Cleric Muqtada al-Sadr...

The Biden administration plans to ask Congress to approve a USD 1.1 billion arms sale to Taiwan that includes hundreds of missiles for fighter jets and anti-ship systems, according to media reports...

At least 13 people were killed and many remained missing after a boat carrying around 25 flood victims capsized in the swollen Indus River in Pakistan's Sindh province on Monday, local media reported...

At least 30 people were killed, and 700 others were injured in Bagdad's Green Zone as clashes continue, a medical source revealed to Al-Jazeera...

New reports says 12 people were killed in live fire and 270 others were wounded in clashes in Iraq, medics told AFP...

ALBAWABA - Every once in a while there is talk of a government reshuffle or even a complete change of the cabinet in Jordan...

ALBAWABA - Its a disaster country. One-third of Pakistan is under water.  Show them this video when someone says we aren't in a #ClimateCrisis...

Iraq's Joint Operations Command announced a curfew across Baghdad starting at 3:30 PM today following the mass protests that followed the Iraqi Sadrist Movement's leader statement, local Iraqi media reported...

Assam Police have arrested two more persons linked with Al-Qaeda Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) and Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT) in the Barpeta district...

Iraqi Sadrist Movement leader Muqtada al-Sadr has announced he is retiring from politics in a statement posted on his official Twitter account...

An earthquake of magnitude 5.8 struck West Sumatra near Pariaman, Indonesia, on Monday, Reuters quoted the United States Geological Survey (USGS) as saying...

Tens of millions of people across swathes of Pakistan were Monday battling the worst monsoon floods in a decade, with countless homes washed away, vital farmland destroyed, and the country's main river threatening to burst its banks...

ALBAWABA - Israel is deeply worried about the possible revitalization of the Iran nuclear deal between Tehran and Washington and which could come very soon...