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Scores of executions feared in Iran as 23-year-old hanged in public killing

Tuesday 13-12-2022 12:58 PM

Fears are growing that Iran is preparing to execute scores more protesters after authorities hanged a 23-year-old man from a crane, in a public killing carried out less than a month after he was ...

U.S. Builds New Firewall to Stop Spread of Militant Islamists

Monday 12-12-2022 02:11 PM

The front lines in the war between the West and militant Islamists have shifted to Africa, from Somalia on the continent’s eastern tip to the West African Sahel, a semidesert strip south of the ...

In Tunisia, economic crisis threatens to sabotage polls

Sunday 11-12-2022 07:10 PM

Tunisian authorities move ahead with preparations for the legislative elections which are slated for December 17. However, the political and economic atmosphere surrounding these preparations is ...

Yemeni council cracking down on Brotherhood in Hadhramaut

Sunday 11-12-2022 07:05 PM

Since taking office in April 2022, the Yemeni Leadership Council, headed by Rashad al-Alimi, has been working to tighten the noose around Islah Party, the political arm of the Muslim Brotherhood in ...

With failure to choose Zawahiri successor, Washington closes in on al-Qaeda

Sunday 11-12-2022 06:57 PM

Al-Qaeda has been facing a continuous stumbling block in choosing a successor to its former leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, who was killed in an American strike in the Afghan capital in August 2022, in ...

Northern Syria: Division of spoils ignites conflict between Sham Legion and Tahrir al-Sham

Sunday 11-12-2022 06:49 PM

Omar Hudhaifa, the official in charge of the Sharia office of Faylaq al-Sham (Sham Legion), has reignited talk about Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), recalling several violations, criticizing HTS, and ...

Russia Launches New Drone Attacks as Partnership With Iran Deepens

Sunday 11-12-2022 02:54 PM

Russia launched fresh attacks with Iranian-made drones early Saturday over Ukraine, where the country’s southern command said it shot down 10 of the unmanned aerial systems, an indication that ...

‘God preserve this score!’ Palestinians revel in Morocco’s World Cup backing

Sunday 11-12-2022 01:38 PM

The stands at Al Thumama Stadium in Doha may have been half empty when the World Cup quarter final between Morocco and Portugal began, but the bars, cafes and streets of Ramallah were already ...

EXPLAINER: What’s at stake in Turkey’s new Syria escalation

Sunday 11-12-2022 12:40 PM

After weeks of deadly Turkish airstrikes in northern Syria, Kurdish forces and international players are trying to gauge whether Ankara’s threats of a ground invasion are serious. Turkish President ...

Emergency food served up with skills for the future

Saturday 10-12-2022 06:08 PM

When Hon Loyik’s family sowed their wheat last year they said a prayer that this time the crop would not fail. High in the mountains, they relied on rain to water their fields. For a second ...

Afghan academic rebuilds life in Italy, dreams of returning

Saturday 10-12-2022 02:33 PM

Batool Haidari used to be a prominent professor of sexology at a Kabul university before the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan. She taught mixed classes of male and female students, and helped ...

Ayatollah’s sister calls for overthrow of her brother’s ‘tyranny’ in Iran

Friday 09-12-2022 01:50 PM

The sister of Iran’s supreme leader has said that she hopes the ruling “tyranny” of her brother, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, will soon be overthrown as she called on the country’s feared revolutionary ...

Dbeibeh's government not knowing which way to turn

Friday 09-12-2022 01:31 PM

Libyas political forces seek, with support from international bodies, to move the stagnant waters on the political stage of their country and build new agreements that pave the way for ending the ...

Al-Bawaba making nonstop coverage of developments in Afghanistan

Friday 09-12-2022 01:19 PM

Al-Bawaba News celebrated the eighth anniversary of its founding on December 2. During those eight years, the journalists of the newspaper, led by renowned journalist and writer, Abdelrahim Ali, ...

Putin says ‘we have not gone mad’ in new threat to West

Thursday 08-12-2022 10:12 AM

President Putin insisted yesterday that he had not lost his mind as he warned of the growing threat of nuclear war and accused Poland of seeking to seize western Ukraine. In televised remarks Putin ...