Pope Francis arrived in the Bahraini capital Manama on Thursday on the first visit to the Gulf kingdom by the supreme pontiff...

ALBAWABA - Israeli military planes have launched strikes on a number of positions on Gaza early Friday morning...

ALBAWABA - Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan survives an assassination attempt.  BREAKING: Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan shot in assassination attempt...

Criminals and sex offenders have been allowed to join and stay in the police due to failings in the vetting system, a report found...

ALBAWABA - Just what is happening on the Iran-Saudi front is baffling many an observer can be heard as saying...

North Korea launched three missiles into the East Sea on Thursday, South Korean defense officials said, including one that appeared to be an intercontinental ballistic missile, which prompted Japan to issue an emergency alert to its citizens...

ALBAWABA - Benjamin Netanyahu comes back as Israeli's next prime minister with a 65-seat majority in the 120-member Knesset...

ALBAWABA - Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Amman Thursday, meeting top Jordanian officials...

Iran said Wednesday it will send a delegation to Vienna in the coming days to hold talks with officials of the UN nuclear watchdog in an effort to revive the 2015 nuclear deal...

Saudi Arabia said Wednesday it will host the next Arab summit. "Based on the kingdom's keenness to perpetuate the existing cooperation, we announce that our country will host the 32nd Arab summit,” Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan t...

The Algeria-hosted Arab summit on Wednesday reiterated support to the Palestinian people and called for a political solution to the Syrian conflict...

Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil announced Tuesday that he does not intend to run for the country’s presidency...

ALBAWABA - Syria will not stand with its hands behind its back. Foreign Minister Faisal Mikdad it will not remain silent to Israeli aggression and military strikes on his country, made hundreds of times in the past years and which resulted in the shu...

 A federal judge has sentenced a former Kansas school teacher who led an all-female Islamic State battalion to 20 years in prison...

ALBAWABA - Breaking. An explosion in the Afghanistan capital of Kabul is being reported.  انفجار في العاصمة الأفغانية #كابول...

The municipality in Paris announced Tuesday that all lights in offices and shops will be turned off at the end of the working day...

ALBAWABA - Exit polls show Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu is likely to be the next Israeli prime minister...

ALBAWABA  - A premier international defence exhibition has opened in Jordan's Aqaba beach resort...

Iran's Foreign Ministry announces sanctions on a host of American individuals and entities for committing human rights violations, supporting terrorism and inciting violence against the Iranian nation during the recent riots...

Palestinian foreign minister Riyad al-Maliki says Israel must come clean about its nuclear weapons. He said it must join the 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)...