Iran executes more than 500 this year

More than 500 people have been executed by Iran this year, according to a new count by human rights activists, a big increase already on last year. Iran is one of several Middle Eastern countries ...

Strikes Across Iran Lead to Shuttered Shops and Ghost Towns

Businesses, shops and traditional bazaars in more than 50 cities across Iran were shuttered for a second day on Tuesday in what appeared to be one of the largest general strikes in decades, ...

Russian Oligarch Seizes 400,000 Acres of Ukrainian Farmland, Owners Say

Soon after Russian tanks rolled into eastern Ukraine, three of that country’s biggest farming operators lost tracts of land equivalent to more than twice the area of New York City. It wasn’t taken ...

Ukraine: Putin aims to fund war machine with shadow oil fleet

Russia is seeking to build up a “shadow fleet” of oil tankers to boost exports to Asia and help compensate for western sanctions aimed at crippling President Putin’s war machine. A European Union ...

Iran officials sentence 5 to death for killing Basij troop

Iranian authorities sentenced five people to death for allegedly killing a member of a paramilitary force affiliated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard, state media said Tuesday. Eleven others ...

We are not afraid of your terrorism: Al-Bawaba besieges ISIS by exposing its plans, organization threatens revenge

Somalia's efforts to combat terrorism: A zero-sum war and an incomplete equation

The Somali government is racing against time to restore stability and security and eliminate all forms of terrorism, in coordination with the international community, as the Somali army is ...

Al-Bawaba News on the Yemeni front: Prominent role in exposing Houthis' terrorism to the world

Al-Bawaba's 8th founding anniversary: Years of work that uncovers the plots of the terrorist Brotherhood inside and outside Egypt

Confusion over Iran’s religious police as women drop hijab

Confusion over the status of Iran’s religious police grew as state media cast doubt on reports the force had been shut down. Despite the uncertainty, it has appeared for weeks that enforcement of ...

Ukraine Targets Bases Deep in Russia, Showing Expanded Reach

Ukraine executed its most brazen attack into Russian territory in the nine-month-old war on Monday, targeting two military bases hundreds of miles inside the country using drones, according to the ...

Taliban: Roadside bomb kills 6 people in north Afghanistan

A roadside bomb went off near a bus with government employees during rush hour on Tuesday morning in northern Afghanistan, killing six people, a Taliban official said. Mohammad Asif Waziri, the ...

Skyrocketing Prices in Turkey Hurt Families and Tarnish Erdogan

As Turkey’s annual inflation rate has soared above 80 percent, families are being forced to stick with worn-out clothes and shoes and to cut meat from their diets while some struggle to afford ...

Russia bombards Ukraine as Putin visits Crimea bridge

Ukrainian cities faced a new barrage of missile attacks yesterday as Moscow accused Nato of being involved in a direct military confrontation with Russia that could spark a nuclear war. Air raid ...

High noon in Iran as three-day strike begins and protesters and cops ready for confrontation

Entire commercial districts were shuttered ghost towns across Iran on a normally busy Monday, the start of three days of planned anti-regime strikes and planned demonstrations. The latest round of ...