Jordan Al Bawaba
Mon, 23 Mar 2026 08:33:18 +0000Ex-French prime minister Lionel Jospin dies at 88
ALBAWABA - Lionel Jospin, a former Prime Minister in France, died at the age of 88, his family told AFP...
Mon, 23 Mar 2026 07:49:38 +0000US plans ground operation to seize Iran's Kharg Island
ALBAWABA - Senior American officials have informed their counterparts in Israel and other countries in recent days that the United States is considering to launch a ground operation to seize Kharg Island in Iran...
Mon, 23 Mar 2026 05:40:07 +0000Air Canada plane collides with firetruck at New York's LaGuardia Airport
ALBAWABA - An Air Canada plane crashed with a firetruck at LaGuardia Airport in New York, killing the pilot and copilot and injuring two others, a law enforcement official told CNN...
Sun, 22 Mar 2026 13:36:02 +0000Istanbul building collapse after explosion: 9 rescued and 2 still trapped
ALBAWABA - An explosion thought to be connected to natural gas caused two nearby buildings in Istanbul's Fatih neighborhood to fall on Sunday, sparking a massive emergency reaction and continuing rescue efforts...
Sun, 22 Mar 2026 12:45:57 +0000Video: Iran shots down F-15 fighter Jet
ALBAWABA - The United Kingdom has disassociated itself from the warning to Iran issued by U.S. President Donald Trump, stressing that his comments are a personal opinion rather than a coordinated international approach...
Sun, 22 Mar 2026 10:40:40 +0000"He Represents Only Himself": UK responds to Trump's attempt to drag It into war
ALBAWABA - The United Kingdom has disassociated itself from the warning to Iran issued by U.S. President Donald Trump, stressing that his comments are a personal opinion rather than a coordinated international approach...
Sun, 22 Mar 2026 08:37:18 +0000Qatari helicopter crash kills 6 people
ALBAWABA - A helicopter crash in Qatar’s territorial waters killed six people, and rescue workers are still operating to find the last missing person, Qatar's interior ministry announced Sunday...
Sun, 22 Mar 2026 08:17:17 +0000Israel tightens security measures after Arad and Dimona attacks
ALBAWABA - Israel announced new restrictions in several southern regions after declaring that more than 170 people were injured in attacks in southern Israel on Saturday night in attacks on Arad and Dimona cities...
Sat, 21 Mar 2026 15:42:01 +0000Video: IRGC hits Israeli F-16 jet as Israel downplays incident
ALBAWABA - As contradictory reports of the event surfaced from both sides, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) declared on Saturday that it had hit an Israeli F-16 fighter jet over central Iran...
Sat, 21 Mar 2026 14:59:49 +0000"Mojtaba Mystery": CIA and Mossad unable to identify Iran’s real leader
ALBAWABA - According to an Axios story, U.S. and Israeli intelligence services are apparently having trouble figuring out who is actually in charge of Iran since Mojtaba Khamenei was named Supreme Leader...
Sat, 21 Mar 2026 12:28:31 +0000Natanz nuclear facility targeted in new attack
ALBAWABA – Iran's Atomic Energy Organization said on Saturday that the U.S.-Israeli onslaught was responsible for another attack on one of the country's key nuclear facilities at the Natanz nuclear complex...
Fri, 20 Mar 2026 07:48:07 +0000Iranian army spokesman Ali Mohammad Naeini killed in US-Israeli strike
ALBAWABA - Spokesman for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Ali Mohammad Naeini, was killed in an Israeli attack, Iranian TV announced Friday...
Fri, 20 Mar 2026 06:43:06 +0000Drone attacks cause fire at Mina Al-Ahmadi oil refinery in Kuwait
ALBAWABA - Kuwaiti authorities said that a fire broke out at Mina Al-Ahmadi oil refinery on Friday following a drone attack, state media reported...
Fri, 20 Mar 2026 06:27:28 +0000Explosion kills and injures 21 people in Egypt
ALBAWABA - A tragic incident took place in New Damietta, a city in northern Egypt, when a massive fire broke out in a major shopping mall, caused by a helium gas cylinder explosion, local media reported Friday...
Thu, 19 Mar 2026 11:50:33 +0000Ukraine escalates energy war with fresh drone strikes on TurkStream gas pipeline
ALBAWABA- Ukraine has carried out a new wave of drone strikes targeting Russian natural gas pipelines that supply Turkey and parts of southern Europe, according to Ukrainian military sources...
Thu, 19 Mar 2026 09:08:10 +0000Twin drone strikes hit Kuwait’s largest refineries
ALBAWABA- Kuwait’s two largest oil refineries were struck by drones on Thursday, marking a sharp escalation in attacks on Gulf energy infrastructure amid the widening Iran–Israel conflict...
Thu, 19 Mar 2026 08:45:48 +0000Mystery drones spotted over Washington base housing top US officials
ALBAWABA- Unidentified drones were detected over Fort Lesley J. McNair, a US Army installation in Washington, DC, where Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth reside, according to a report by The Washington Post...
Thu, 19 Mar 2026 08:19:13 +0000Two vessels hit in Gulf as regional conflict spills into key shipping lanes
ALBAWABA- Maritime security risks in the Gulf escalated sharply after two commercial vessels were struck by unidentified projectiles within hours of each other, according to the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations...
Wed, 18 Mar 2026 20:34:53 +0000Riyadh rocked by blasts as Iran widens war across Gulf energy hubs
ALBAWABA- Explosions shook the Saudi capital on Wednesday after Iranian ballistic missiles targeted the city, marking a dramatic escalation in the widening regional conflict...
Wed, 18 Mar 2026 19:46:58 +0000Iran hits Qatar’s Ras Laffan after South Pars strike
ALBAWABA- Iran launched missile strikes on Qatar’s Ras Laffan Industrial City with two ballistic missiles on Wednesday, sharply escalating the three-week conflict and bringing critical Gulf energy infrastructure into direct confrontation...