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Iran shares new details about the reopening of Strait of Hormuz

August 2nd, 2026

Sally Shakkour

ALBAWABA - U.S. President Donald Trump claimed that the Islamic Republic and other countries in the Middle East asked Washington to refrain from conducting new strikes; however, Iran's Mehr news ...

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Bombed out façade of Balzi Rossi restaurant in Moscow

August 2nd, 2026 - 10:43 GMT

P. Choiaqo

Deadly blast in Moscow leaves 3 killed and 21 injured

ALBAWABA - A bomb blast in a restaurant in central Moscow on Saturday has caused the deaths of three people and the injury of 21 others. Reports say a woman carried a homemade explosive and tried to enter the Balzi Rossi restaurant on the ground floor ‌of one of Moscow’s seven Stalin-era skyscrapers in Kudrinskaya Square. The woman was stopped by a security guard before entering the restaurant which may ...

In mid-2014, the extremist group overran vast swathes of territory in northern and western Iraq, including Mosul. (AFP/File)

November 24th, 2016 - 06:00 GMT

Daesh propaganda chief believed dead in Mosul, Iraq

Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. (AFP/File)

November 24th, 2016 - 05:00 GMT

Sisi weighs in on journalists’ arrests, claiming they’re due to ‘criminal offences, not opinion’

The two male suspects, also British nationals, were arrested and questioned. The three parties were later released on bail, but their passports were retained to facilitate the investigation. (File photo)

November 23rd, 2016 - 04:00 GMT

Dubai court drops extramarital sex charges against British rape victim

Smoke billows as Iraqi forces hold a position on October 17, 2016 near Mosul. (AFP/File)

November 23rd, 2016 - 03:00 GMT

Iraqi army forces claim Mosul and Daesh have been cut off from the rest of the country

Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, who number between 500,000 and 600,000, receive four times as many housing units as Palestinian citizens in Israel. (AFP/File)

November 23rd, 2016 - 02:00 GMT

Latest round of Israeli demolitions of Palestinian homes targets Al-Ludd and Haifa

Protesters threatened to return to protesting if their demands that the land be returned to them are not met. (File photo)

November 23rd, 2016 - 01:00 GMT

Four days of protests come to an end as Nubians reach agreement with Egyptian authorities on ancestral homeland

Nevine Loutfy was the first ever female head of an Islamic bank. (File photo)

November 23rd, 2016 - 12:00 GMT

Egyptian CEO of Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank Nevine Loutfy stabbed to death at her Cairo home

Bahrain's top Shia cleric Sheikh Isa Qassim. (AFP/File)

November 23rd, 2016 - 11:00 GMT

Bahrainis hold demonstrations in solidarity with Shia cleric Qassim on trial

Australian immigration minister Peter Dutton. (AFP/File)

November 23rd, 2016 - 10:00 GMT

Australian MP slammed for comments linking Lebanese refugees to terrorism

Former mayor of London Boris Johnson walks to 10 Downing Street in central London on July 13, 2016. (AFP/Oli Scarff)

November 23rd, 2016 - 09:00 GMT

UK hopes to soften Trump opposition to Iran deal

The overcrowded and impoverished Ain al-Hilweh camp has gained notoriety in recent years as a refuge for Muslim extremists and fugitives. (AFP/File)

November 23rd, 2016 - 08:01 GMT

Hamas condemns Lebanon’s construction of ‘apartheid wall’

A man carries a woman from the rubble of a building following reported airstrikes on Aleppo's rebel-held district of al-Hamra on November 20, 2016. (AFP/Thaer Mohammed)

November 23rd, 2016 - 07:12 GMT

Syrian regime pushes into east Aleppo amid more accusations of chemical gas attacks