Bahrain state TV aired a report on Wednesday claiming Qatar was behind popular 2011 anti-government protests, in the latest attack on Doha. Bahrain’s state television accused Qatar of attempting to overthrow the Manama-based regime in [ More … ]
The United Arab Emirates and Bahrain have agreed to open up flight corridors for sanctions-hit Qatar’s state-owned flag carrier Qatar Airways. Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates have agreed to open up flight corridors for [ More … ]
The foreign ministers of Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain, and Egypt met in Cairo on Wednesday to discuss their stance toward Qatar’s response to the 13-item demands they handled to the Kuwaiti mediated about two weeks [ More … ]
Bahrain jailed one of its citizens for comments made on social media, reports said, in the first arrest of its kind since passing a controversial law criminalizing sympathy with Qatar. Last week, Bahrain authorities followed [ More … ]
The Bahraini government has shut down Al-Wasat, a prominent independent newspaper “until further notice” after the paper published a piece about unrest in Morocco. Authorities are cracking down on dissent in the country. Bahrain’s Information [ More … ]
A number of Arab nations cut off relations with Qatar on Monday morning, accusing it of ‘sponsoring terrorism’. The United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Yemen and Gen. Khalifa Haftar in Libya all cut off [ More … ]
Saudi Arabia on Wednesday defended the actions of Bahraini authorities who opened fire on a protest by supporters of a top Shiite cleric, killing five people. The security of Bahrain “is an integral part” of [ More … ]
Bahrain is once again gripped with violence after police fired on protesters outside the home of a popular cleric. Five people have been killed when police opened fire on protesters in Bahrain on Tuesday, as [ More … ]
Bahrain police reportedly killed one protester after raiding a sit-in supporting a prominent Shia cleric who had his citizenship stripped by the government earlier. A Bahraini police raid on Tuesday on a sit-in by supporters [ More … ]
Al-Sisi is warming his relations with Gulf countries under U.S blessings. Weeks after U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis’ visit to Egypt, al-Sisi started his Gulf tour amid Trump’s administration’s new agenda to renew its pact with [ More … ]
Just days after reports suggested the US would lift human rights conditions on an arms deal with Bahrain, the Gulf kingdom said Donald Trump understands the region ‘better’ than Obama. US President Donald Trump understands [ More … ]
Bahrain has announced that it broke an Iranian-linked “terrorist cell” suspected of involvement in a bomb attack on a police bus in February and plotting to assassinate senior officials, Bahraini state news agency reported. The agency [ More … ]
A Bahraini appeals court sentenced three people to death on Thursday over bombings that targeted police patrols in a majority-Shia village, the state-run news agency reported. Three people were sentenced to death by Bahraini courts [ More … ]
Bahrain has welcomed the decision by the US Department of State to designate individuals affiliated with Al-Ashtar Brigades as Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGT) under Executive Order 13224. “This stance reflects the position of the [ More … ]
Bahrain’s government approved a constitutional change which will allow military courts to try civilians, the kingdom’s latest rollback on reforms made after Arab Spring protests in 2011. Bahrain’s military courts are now authorised to try [ More … ]
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