Executions in Iran rose by 25% in 2021, a report by two leading NGOs said Thursday, expressing alarm over a surge in the numbers executed for drug offences and also the hanging of at least 17 women...

The United States has credible evidence of Russian troops executing surrendering Ukrainians in Donetsk region, a U...

A French lawyer has expressed deep concern over the recent assault of two veiled young Muslim women by police officers at the Pont de Clichy in the northwestern part of the capital Paris...

A mentally disabled Malaysian man was hanged in Singapore on Wednesday, his family said, after losing a long legal battle and a storm of international criticism and appeals for clemency...

United States Vice President Kamala Harris has tested positive for COVID-19, the White House announced Tuesday...

Germany has agreed to send 50 anti-aircraft tanks to Ukraine to aid its fight against Russia, Berlin's defense ministry said, as the European Country continues to distance itself from its former anti-militarization policies...

The Russia-Ukraine war has disrupted wheat exports, driving wheat prices up by 60% in Africa, the president of the African Development Bank (AfDB) said Tuesday, warning that the continent will lose up to $11 billion worth of food due to the conflict....

Key figures on the American left, Barack Obama among them, have shed thousands of followers since Elon Musk's planned purchase of Twitter emerged, while numbers have soared for right-wing politicians...

Russian energy firm Gazprom has informed Poland and Bulgaria that it will stop supplying gas to the two countries as of Wednesday...

Getting rid of Lebanon's well-entrenched corrupt and inept ruling political class, accused of being responsible for bringing the country almost deliberately to collapse and impoverishing its population, is unlikely to happen at the upcoming parliamen...

ALBAWABA - Israel has struck Damascus again. Its the third such attack this month of April.  Four Syrian soldiers killed and three others hurt in an IDF strike near #Damascus overnight, Syrian state media reports...

ALBAWABA - US Secretary Anthony Blinken defends the revival of a nuclear deal with Iran. He says this is the best way for ensuring that Tehran doesn't go down that road and start producing nuclear weapons...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un pledged to bolster his regime's nuclear weapons program during a military parade that featured displays of massive intercontinental ballistic missiles, state media reported Tuesday...

Videos circulating on social media showing Afghan refugees being subjected to "cruel" treatment by Iranian authorities at the border and within Iran have sparked widespread outrage...

ALBAWABA - A blast is being reported at Karachi University. The news is coming through local sources...

ALBAWABA - As the Ukraine War has entered its third month the idea of WWIII is graining greater currency on the social media...

ALBAWABA - The #IsraeliOccupation navy detained three Palestinian fishermen on the offshore of Gaza under the pretext of exceeding the limit of their fishing space...

Russian forces now occupying most of Ukraine’s southeastern port city of Mariupol should ensure that civilians remaining in the city can leave in safety to Ukraine-controlled territory if they choose, Human Rights Watch said today...

Iran said Monday that the latest round of talks with its regional rival Saudi Arabia was "positive and serious" and voiced hope for further progress soon...

A New York Supreme Court judge on Monday held former President Donald Trump in contempt and said he would be fined $10,000 each day until he complies with a subpoena related to an investigation into his business practices...