The Taliban fired back at the United Nations on Saturday after the U.N. Human Rights Office criticized Afghanistan's first public flogging in decades...

 Eastern Military Zone personnel thwarted an attempt to infiltrate and smuggle "large" quantities of narcotics coming from Syrian territory on Saturday at dawn...

ALBAWABA - Israeli reporters sent to cover the World Cup in Qatar continue to be humiliated through the numerous videoclips posted in the social media and there is certainly a lot...

Angry crowds took to the streets of Shanghai early Sunday calling for an end to lockdowns, as China grapples with mounting public protests against its zero-Covid policy, AFP reports...

Yemen’s separatist Southern Transitional Council (STC) said Saturday a senior commander was killed in a bomb explosion in the southern Shabwah province...

ALBAWABA - Well-known Israeli intellectual and author Youval Noah Harari may speak the stark truth about Israelis when he says they don't want a two-state solution with the Palestinians...

 Lina Ghotmeh has pegged her career on sustainable construction. The French-Lebanese architect wants to see her industry transformed by drastically reducing the use of concrete -- a major CO2 contributor -- using more local materials and reusin...

Shamed and abandoned; women held in the Assad regime's prisons in Syria face social rejection after they were released...

Israeli prime minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu has reportedly agreed to hand the so-called civil administration in the occupied West Bank to the far-right Religious Zionism party, a move that signals more extremism towards Palestinians...

Iran on Thursday slammed the adoption of a resolution by the UN Human Rights Council for the establishment of a fact-finding mission to investigate alleged human rights violations in the country related to protests that began on Sept...

ALBAWABA - Jeddah drowns. Video clips on the social media shows that torrential rain on Saudi Arabia is devastating the city...

ALBAWABA - Hassan Mushaima is a Bahraini activist who has long been in jail, in fact ever since 2011 during the Arab Spring protests...

Jibran Bassil, who heads Lebanon’s Free Patriotic Movement (FPM), has been told by its ally Hizbollah the group will not support him for the presidency and will, instead, continue to back the candidacy of Suleiman Frangie...

ALBAWABA - Israeli forces demolished a primary school in the West Bank city of Hebron, raising tensions in a city with a mixed Palestinian-Israeli population...

The Katara Cultural Village Mosque in Qatar’s capital of Doha has become the focus of attention for World Cup fans who want to get to know about Islam...

Israel has detained tens of thousands of Palestinian children since 1967, according to the official Palestinian Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs (CDA)...

A decade ago, social media directed the anger of Arab citizens into mass protests, leaving regimes stunned and even powerless...

ALBAWABA - Israeli television reporters in Qatar are having a hard time talking with football fans, who are snubbing them when they say they come from Israel...

The large community of expats in Qatar comes together to make the sporting event a memorable experience...

ALBAWABA - A bomb left in a Jerusalem bus station explodes, kills one and injures 18. #Breaking One person was killed and 14 others were injured in two explosions targeting bus stations in Jerusal...