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...

Bahrain's High Criminal Court jailed 18 men yesterday for being part of an alleged Iranian-supported terrorist cell. According to Akhbar Al-Khaleej, the convicts, all Bahraini citizens were sentenced between five...

In a letter sent to the EU Foreign Policy Chief Josep Borrell, 16 MEPs voiced their "deep concern" about the deterioration of human rights in Bahrain, MEP Karen Melchior tweeted last...

Israel has allowed the US to install its Iron Dome missile defense system in the Gulf region

Bahrain's Foreign Minister, Abdullatif Al Zayani, criticised yesterday the state of Qatar, accusing it of not taking any initiative to resolve its issues with Manama, despite the outcome of...

Joe Biden has been urged to "immediately" review American policy towards Bahrain in a letter calling on the newly elected president to consider relocating the US Fifth Fleet from...

Outgoing US President Donald Trump awarded the King of Bahrain the Legion of Merit with the Degree of Chief Commander yesterday. King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa was given the...

Donald Trump has used his four years as US president to demonstrate his deep commitment to the Zionist state of Israel. He has striven to enable Israel to take...

A January shipment of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to the Gulf state of Bahrain will not arrive on time, the ministry of health said on Saturday, but second doses of...

US State Secretary Mike Pompeo has suggested that outgoing President Donald Trump should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for promoting harmony between Arab countries and Israel. This comes...

By any standards, it was necessary for the Gulf States to rearrange their affairs, as the conflict has exhausted them for little or no benefit. They are essentially one...

Israel's national water company Mekorot will sign its first deal to provide Bahrain with water desalination technology, Israel Hayom reported yesterday. The daily newspaper said that the deal would...

The president of the Bahrain Journalists' Association (BJA) has claimed that Arab media professionals advocating normalisation with Israel are being bullied and threatened online. Ahdeya Ahmed Al-Sayed made her...

Middle Eastern passports have ranked low on this year's Henley Passport Index, which ranks the travel documents according to the number of destinations their holders can travel to without obtaining a...

Head of the Libyan Government of National Accord (GNA) Fayez Al-Sarraj has welcomed the outcomes of the Gulf summit held on Tuesday in Saudi Arabia, which he believes: "Succeeded...

Media reports revealed last month that Turkey has been working to restore relations with Israel. On 9 December, Al-Monitor said that Ankara had selected a new ambassador to Tel...

Progress in the talks between Egypt and the Gulf States that boycotted Qatar do not mean full reconciliation, the New Khaleej reported Egyptian media saying yesterday. Reporting the Egyptian newspaper Al-Shorouk, the New...

Egypt sent its foreign minister to a summit of Gulf Arab leaders on Tuesday that produced a pledge towards ending a regional dispute with Qatar, while Qatar's finance minister...

Saudi Arabia is re-opening its air, land and sea borders with Qatar after a 3-year embargo

The Bahraini provocations in Qatar, in the form of breaching sea and air borders, came with an Emirati incitement to thwart Gulf reconciliation – or Saudi-Qatari reconciliation to be...

The Palestinian Forum for Israeli Studies (MADAR) said Arab and Israeli indicators show that the majority of Arabs reject normalisation with Israel and view the Palestinian issue as the core of the...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi will attend the Gulf Cooperation Council's 41st summit that will be held in Riyadh on 5 January, on an invitation from Saudi King Salman...

Landmark developments seem to have changed everything and nothing for Palestine this year. The flurry of normalisation deals is one of them and arguably the most significant. In advance...

Gulf Arab foreign ministers will hold a virtual meeting hosted by Bahrain on Sunday ahead of an annual summit to discuss steps towards ending a diplomatic row that has...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed on Wednesday that the normalisation of ties between Israel and Arab states is a realisation of biblical prophecy, Israeli media reported. "Remarkably, here...

Bahrain on Thursday rejected a letter sent by Qatar to the UN Security Council on an alleged violation of its airspace by four Bahraini fighter jets, reported Anadolu Agency....