Afghan academic rebuilds life in Italy, dreams of returning

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

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

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

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

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 ...

British Army to replace Nlaw anti-tank weapons given to Ukraine

The British Army will buy thousands of Nlaw anti-tank weapons to replace those given to Ukraine. The government has announced a £229 million deal with Saab to purchase more of the Swedish-developed ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Africa fearful as drones fall into the hands of terrorists

Drones have become an imminent threat to the security of many African countries. This comes as terrorist groups and organizations have become able to obtain these drones. The ...

EU rises up against Iranian repression of demonstrators

The European Parliament has moved to sever its relations with the Iranian regime. This came against the backdrop of popular demonstrations in Iran over the death of a Kurdish woman at the ...