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November 25th, 2025 - 07:16 GMT

Sally Shakkour

Binance accused of facilitating $1 billion to Hamas, Hezbollah, and other groups

ALBAWABA - Binance, one of the world's top cryptocurrency exchange websites, is facing a lawsuit with accusations of facilitating money for the Hamas group. Binance and its founder, Changpeng Zhao, are accused of facilitating millions of dollars in payments to Hamas and other U.S.-designated terrorist groups. The Financial Times reported that the lawsuit was filed by victims of Hamas' October 2023 attack on Israel. Reuters reported that the lawsuit is ...

Despite a global image of SUVs and designer brands -- and a World Bank rating to boot -- Saudi Arabia is battling against a rising tide of poverty. (Image via Gulf News)

November 4th, 2013 - 12:12 GMT

Saudi Arabia’s dirty little secret: The KSA’s growing poverty rate

Local doctors sent videos to reporters showing six deaths caused by malnutrition in a sieged village. The majority of the victims were children (Courtesy of Foreign Policy)

November 1st, 2013 - 05:00 GMT

Syria's most fatal weapon: starvation warfare

Al Bawaba

October 30th, 2013 - 05:00 GMT

For the Middle East to progress, women need to have a ticket to ride

A woman adjusts her makeup amidst the wreckage following August's car bombs in Tripoli. (AFP/File)

October 28th, 2013 - 06:47 GMT

Tripoli: The playground for rival Middle Eastern states

More than 750,000 Palestinians were displaced at the hands of Zionist forces in 1948 (Courtesy of Wikimedia)

October 25th, 2013 - 04:00 GMT

Nakba's last witnesses

With over 150,000 slaves, Mauritania has the most number of modern slaves in the world. (Getty)

October 22nd, 2013 - 02:47 GMT

Shameful and striking: Slavery is alive and beating in the Middle East

The Green March of 1975 displaced many Sahrawis from Western Sahara into Algerian refugee camps that are now considered some of the oldest and largest refugee camps in the world (Courtesy of Wikimedia)

October 22nd, 2013 - 05:00 GMT

The Saharawi perspective on Africa's "last colony": the case of Western Sahara and the Morocco invasion

Saudi Arabia has turned down a non-permanent seat on the UN Security Council, citing its inefficiency as the reason why. (Getty Images)

October 20th, 2013 - 07:12 GMT

Why did Saudi Arabia turn down a UN seat?

Women have long been active within Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood but this hasn't translated into leadership roles within the group, which remains hierarchical and male-dominated. (AFP/File)

October 17th, 2013 - 04:00 GMT

Girl Power: Inside Egypt's Muslim Sisterhood

Obama speaks on the phonecall to Iranian president Hassan Rouhani in September. Although Iran is known for its conservatism, it's the hardliners within the US who are more likely to sabotage peace between Washington and Tehran. (AFP/File)

October 15th, 2013 - 03:00 GMT

Why Washington's conservatives are the biggest obstacle to peace with Iran

A woman looks at a Facebook page in Agadir published in support of the three Moroccan teenagers arrested for posting Facebook photos of two of them kissing outside their school in the northern town of Nador last week. (AFP)

October 13th, 2013 - 11:32 GMT

Stagnant society: Why is the Middle East so backwards?

At least 52 journalists have been killed covering the Syrian conflict. Here, footage from an amateur video shows NBC chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel and several colleagues after they were abducted by an armed gang in Syria. (Image via thejournal.ie)

October 9th, 2013 - 10:03 GMT

Abduction: the price of being a journalist in Syria