Qatar is interested in joining French firm TotalEnergies and Italy’s Eni in exploring for oil in two areas in Lebanese waters, the Lebanese energy minister said on Friday...

 An ardent Ottoman traveller from the 17th century, Evliya Celebi, left a valuable account on the Hajj pilgrimage route and way stations between Damascus and Mecca...

Twenty-eight workers were killed Friday in a blast at a coal mine in northern Türkiye, according to the Turkish health minister...

One person is likely to die of hunger every 36 seconds between now and the end of the year in drought-ravaged East Africa as the worst-hit areas hurtle toward famine, an international humanitarian agency warned on Friday...

The Iraqi parliament on Thursday elected Abdul Latif Rashid as the country's new president after securing more votes than incumbent Barham Salih...

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday proposed to his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan to build a natural gas hub in Türkiye...

In an effort to alleviate congestion at the U.S. southern border, the Biden administration has announced plans to permit entry to tens of thousands of eligible asylum seekers fleeing the economic and humanitarian crisis of Venezuela...

Rocket fire targeting Baghdad's Green Zone wounded 10 people Thursday, as Iraqi lawmakers gathered for their fourth attempt to elect a president and break political gridlock that has sparked protests and deadly violence...

ALBAWABA - Lebanon has recorded its first death from cholera as the country's Health Ministry battles the disease that seems to be tipping from the country's borders with Syria...

ALBAWABA - Trending. The Lebanese MPs cancelled its present parliamentary session to elect a new president because their were not enough law-makers...

UNESCO’s Executive Board, during its 215th session, unanimously adopted a decision on the Old City of Jerusalem and its walls...

The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution Wednesday that condemns Russia's illegal annexation of four regions of eastern Ukraine, with 143 states voting in favor...

Lebanon will start returning Syrian refugees to Syria next week, Lebanese President Michel Aoun said Wednesday...

ALBAWABA - The US has never been so angry with the Saudis as it is today. And its all because of oil and the cut in production agreed by the OPEC+ countries to slash two million barrels on the daily total in order to hike up international prices...

ALBAWABA - The Israeli siege on the Shufat refugee camp and the nearby town of Anata, near occupied Jerusalem, continued for the fourth consecutive day as per the Palestine Chronicle...

US tech billionaire Elon Musk on Tuesday rejected a report that claimed he had spoken to Russian President Vladimir Putin before posting a controversial poll about Ukraine on Twitter...

Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on Tuesday cautiously welcomed the Lebanese, Israeli and American declarations about an imminent sea border demarcation deal between Lebanon and Israel, noting that his group will maintain its military readines...

Prosecutors in the U.K. said on Tuesday that a nurse, who is charged with murdering seven babies and attempting to kill 10 others, injected the children with air and fed them insulin...

Children of my Gaza refugee camp were rarely afraid of monsters but of Israeli soldiers. This is all that we talked about before going to bed...

 President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan and Vladimir Putin, President of the Russian Federation, today discussed the bilateral ties between their countries...