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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

He Returned a Dazed Soldier to the Russians. Ukraine Calls It Treason.

On the night of March 15, Illia Karamalikov received an unexpected phone call. As a nightclub owner and member of Kherson’s city council, he had been running a volunteer neighborhood watch in this ...

Joy as Afghan lives are rebuilt from the rubble

The night the Taliban attacked Lokah Mazar, Ghulam Sarwat was at home in his mud-built house below a distinctive rocky crag jutting up from the centre of the village. The Taliban’s target was a ...

How U.S. Support for Syrian Kurds Actually Benefits Erdogan

Of the many issues that divide the United States and Turkey, Washington’s support for the Kurdish People’s Defense Units (YPG) in Syria is the thorniest. The YPG makes up the bulk of the Syrian ...

Ukraine’s Power Shortages Force Millions of Refugees Into Lengthier Exile

Russia’s attacks on Ukraine’s civilian infrastructure are forcing millions of Ukrainian refugees who intended to return home to stay put, prolonging their ordeal and straining Europe’s ability to ...

Turkey Is NATO’s Pivot Point Over Ukraine

When Russian President Vladimir Putin celebrated his 70th birthday in October, he didn’t get any well-wishes from leaders in the West, with one notable exception: Turkish President Recep Tayyip ...

Don’t Release Foreign Reserves to the Taliban

Last week, the board of a Swiss-based trust fund, known as the Afghan Fund, met for the first time in Geneva to discuss the future of the $3.5 billion—part of Afghanistan’s $7.1 billion stockpile of ...

Afghans can fight famine — with our help

As dawn breaks over Kabul, thin spirals of smoke lift into the thin air as the city’s bakeries fire up. Yet even in this busy capital, there are many who can only dream of tasting fresh bread today. ...

Ukraine Warns of More Strikes on Power Plants, as Russians Dig In

Amid Ukrainian warnings that Moscow is preparing a new wave of strikes on energy plants, Russian forces are fortifying their defensive lines in southern Ukraine after retreating from the city of ...

The week that could unravel the global oil market

As an epic oil crash threatened more havoc on a pandemic-stricken global economy in April 2020, the US, Saudi Arabia, Russia and other G20 countries met to thrash out a solution. The co-operation ...