From Ted Chaiban, UNICEF Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa   “Violence has rapidly escalated since the year began, taking a steep turn in several locations across Yemen...

The US State Department has ordered families of its embassy staff in Ukraine to start leaving the country as soon as Monday, according to media reports...

Could Daesh be resurfacing in the Arab World. More to the point, could they be mushrooming in the region with greater vengeance and are they setting their eyes for another power grab?They did this when they declared Syria's Raqqa as the self-declared...

ALBAWABA - Kuwait's Foreign Minister Sheikh Ahmad Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah is in Beirut. He is meeting top Lebanese officials including Prime Minister Najib Mikati...

The 75-year-old activist, who was in coma for 13 days after being run over by Israeli tow truck, defended every house, every car, every street from Israeli occupation...

The recent events in Kazakhstan in early January were triggered by a gap between the rich and the poor, the country's president said on Friday...

Canada offered a loan up to CAN$120 million (US$95 million) to Ukraine to counter Russian attempts to "destabilize" the country's economy, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Friday...

Lebanon's financial collapse, which has pushed large segments of the population into poverty, has also seen growing anger against the powerful Hezbollah, with more voices openly blaming it for the ongoing crisis and for its allegiance to Iran...

ALBAWABA - Attacks on a prison's in Yemen's Saada by the Saudi-led Arab Coalition has left at 70 Dead and 225 injured...

ALBAWABA - Reports coming in show 11 Iraqi soldiers were killed by ISIS terror group in the northern part of the Diyala province in the eastern part of the country...

Lebanese President Michel Aoun on Thursday reiterated his determination to work in cooperation with parliament and the government as the country prepares to begin its negotiations with the International Monetary Fund...

Israel has approved with Germany to develop and purchase three advanced submarines, the first of which will be delivered within nine years...

The US has charged a second man accused of being involved in the assassination last year of Haitian President Jovenel Moise, the Department of Justice (DOJ) said Thursday...

An anti-Muslim decision by the French Senate to ban wearing hijab at sports competitions has faced harsh criticism from the country’s Muslim community and social media users across the world...

ALBAWABA - A number of ISIS (Daesh) members escaped from the Al Ghweran prison that is run and controlled by the Kurdish Democratic Forces in Al Hasaka in northeast Syrian according to the UK-based Syrian Observatory...

Taliban rule has had a devastating impact on Afghan women and girls, new research shows, Human Rights Watch and the Human Rights Institute at San Jose State University (SJSU) said today...

At least two people were killed and 22 wounded on Thursday by a bomb blast in a busy shopping district of the Pakistani megacity of Lahore, police and officials said...

A baby girl in the Bronx was in a critical condition on Wednesday night after being caught in crossfire and shot in the face...

The US envoy to the UN urged Israel on Wednesday to refrain from evictions in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem...

From Ted Chaiban, UNICEF Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa   “Over 120 grave violations against children have been verified across Sudan since the military coup on 25 October last year...