The United Arab Emirates will bar entry to non-UAE resident travellers from Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nepal and Sri Lanka starting Wednesday to try to contain the spread of the coronavirus, Reuters reported...

I've read several books on Islam's Sunni-Shia split, with each having provided informative insights on this ancient schism steeped in both theology and politics. The latter is the primary...

An Israeli research centre has addressed the rapprochement between Saudi Arabia and Iran, stressing that this step constitutes a significant breach in the anti-Iran front that Israel seeks to...

A Torah scroll commissioned by former White House senior advisor Jared Kushner and presented to Bahrain's King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa last year has been taken to the recently...

Bahrain's flag carrier Gulf Air has announced that it has begun selling tickets ahead of its first direct flights to Israel's Tel Aviv commencing on 3 June. The airline's...

A Bahraini political prisoner has died at a detention centre, which the authorities have claimed was due to "natural causes." However, the kingdom's main opposition group Al-Wefaq, which was...

Jordan's neighbours and allies reacted with statements of support after the Jordanian military said on Saturday that King Abdullah's half-brother and former Crown Prince Hamza bin Hussein had been...

Bahrain has appointed its first ambassador to Israel and has set up its diplomatic mission there according to a royal decree issued on Tuesday. The envoy was named as...

Israel's National Security Council has warned its citizens that Iran may target them overseas and urged them to be more vigilant, citing threats by Iranian officials, the Times of Israel reported....

Bahraini authorities today said a number of cases of coronavirus discovered in a prison earlier this week had been isolated and the individuals concerned were in a stable condition, Reuters reports....

Bahrain was the first-ever Arab state to not vote for the UNHRC motion condemning Israeli violations against Palestinians in the occupied territories, Al-Quds Al-Arabi reported on Wednesday. Al-Quds Al-Arabi...

Saudi Arabia and Egypt have begun tackling thorny issues with Qatar to rebuild ties, easing an inter-Arab feud seen by the United States as benefiting only mutual enemy Iran,...

In an article in the Wall Street Journal last Sunday, Donald Trump's son-in-law and former senior adviser Jared Kushner described how his diplomatic achievements caused a "geopolitical earthquake" in...

Last Wednesday, 14 members of British Parliament called on Foreign Minister Dominic Raab to exert pressure on the Bahraini government to release political prisoners ten years after their arrests,...

The volume of global food waste reached 931 million tonnes in 2019, 40 million of which originated in the Arab world, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) announced in a report...

Bahrain eased some of its coronavirus restrictions on Sunday, including allowing eating inside restaurants and re-opening educational institutions to students, as case numbers fall, reported Reuters. Restaurants and cafes,...

Jared Kushner, who was a senior adviser to then-President Donald Trump, plans to write a book about his White House experiences, including his role in negotiating normalization deals between...

A special aide to the speaker of the Iranian parliament on international affairs warned that Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates would face "major" internal problems as a result...

Police in Bahrain beat children arrested over taking part in anti-government protests last month and threatened them with rape and electric shocks, according to the Bahrain Institute for Rights...

On the sidelines of the 155th session of the Arab League meeting last week, Egypt chaired a meeting of the Arab Ministerial Committee. The league's Secretary-General, Ahmed Aboul Gheit,...

The State of Kuwait has topped the list of Gulf countries in terms of political rights and freedoms, a new report by the US-based Freedom House has revealed. The...

Israel is currently in contact with Western countries to establish a regional defence alliance with the participation of several Arab countries, against the "Iranian threat" local Makan reported yesterday....

Bahrain, Kuwait, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Saturday supported Saudi Arabia in rejecting a CIA report on the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, reports Anadolu Agency. The...

Israel is currently in talks with the Gulf states of Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for the purpose of forming a defence alliance, a report...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Bahrain's Crown Prince Sheikh Salman Bin Hamad Al Khalifa today discussed the Gulf state's possible involvement in establishing a vaccine plant in Israel, Reuters reported...

Delegations from Qatar and Egypt met in Kuwait today for the first time since an agreement last month to end a rift, both countries' foreign ministries said, in a further...

Known as the "Forgotten Uprising", the largely peaceful pro-democracy protests erupted across the tiny island Kingdom of Bahrain ten years ago, only to be faced with a brutal crackdown...

Oman is satisfied with its current relationship with Israel, the foreign minister said yesterday, Reuters reported. "As regards Israel we are content so far with the level of our current relations...

A Qatari minister met with the newly-appointed Saudi envoy to Doha yesterday following the restoration of diplomatic ties between the Gulf States last month. Minister of State for Foreign...

On a warm evening in April 2020, an image of Al Jazeera anchor Ghada Oueiss nude in a hot tub lit up the internet. It was captured in the...

Bahrain security services foiled "terrorist plots" to bomb two ATMs belonging to a national bank, Reuters reported the interior ministry as saying on Saturday. The bombs had been placed...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday cancelled his planned visit to Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates for the third time, his office said in a statement. "Netanyahu very...