According to well-informed Egyptian sources, there would be changes in the regional scene and concessions that would be made by prominent Arab capitals to contain the repercussions of the...

The next Gulf Cooperation Council summit, to be held in Riyadh next month, may be an opportunity to end the rift within the group, Kuwait’s deputy foreign minister was...

Gulf nationals have renewed their calls to the governments of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) to “halt all forms of normalisation with Israel and activate the necessary boycott laws.” Gulf activists have continued their recently...

US Republican Senator, Rand Paul said on Wednesday that he had received the necessary votes to put forward a draft resolution number 65 which prohibits the sale of a...

Former Bahraini Minister Mohammad Ali Fakhro criticised the Arab world’s normalisation with Israel, blaming these ties for Tel Aviv’s continuous targeting of Palestinians, Arabi21 reported yesterday. Speaking to the...

A member of the Bahraini royal family is being sued for refusing to pay a staggering $33 million; a fee he is alleged to have agreed with an Egyptian...

Israel’s Minister of Economy and Industry Eli Cohen has been invited to attend a conference in Bahrain to discuss cooperation between the two countries. Cohen received an official invitation...

The sentencing of Bahraini opposition leader Sheikh Ali Salman to life in prison on charges of spying for Qatar is the latest sign of Bahrain’s continuing political crisis. Sheikh...

Back in September, before the disappearance and murder of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi Arabian Consulate in Istanbul on 2 October, I came across a story...

Israel’s Minister of Culture and Sports, Miri Regev, was not wrong when she said that the country is experiencing an “Israeli Spring”. This minister in particular experienced things she...

The Bahraini Court of Appeals yesterday sentenced prominent Shia opposition leader Ali Salman to life imprisonment on charges of “colluding” with Qatar. In June, the Bahraini High Court of...

A Bahraini court on Sunday ordered life sentences for three senior opposition members, overturning a previous acquittal on charges of spying for Qatar in what an international rights group...

Ever since Qatar won the bid to host the FIFA World Cup in 2010, the world’s attention – especially western media attention – turned against Qatar for its treatment...

Bahrain’s public debt rose by an annual rate of 11.7 per cent in September, the Central Bank of Bahrain (CBB) announced yesterday. According to the CBB’s official data, the...

Bahraini writer Abdullah Al-Junaid has sparked controversy after saying that his country will not ask for anyone’s permission to establish direct and formal relations with Israel. “If Bahrain finds...

Bahrain is secretly holding talks with Israel in preparation for open relations between the two countries and a visit to the Gulf state by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,...

Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Oman on Sunday congratulated Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the 95th anniversary of Turkish Republic Day. Saudi King Salman Bin Abdulaziz and his son Crown...

Saudi Arabia and key ally Bahrain said on Saturday that Gulf states are playing a critical role in maintaining stability in the Middle East by combating Iran’s “vision of...

At least 18 people, mainly schoolchildren and teachers, were killed on Thursday by a flash flood during a school outing near Jordan’s Dead Sea in one of the worst...

FIFA President Gianni Infantino hailed Qatar’s progress on infrastructure ahead of its 2022 World Cup and said the tournament is poised to be the best one yet during a...

Israeli Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot has met with his counterparts from several Arab countries during the Counter–Violent Extremist Organisations conference held in Washington, Quds Press reported yesterday. According to...

Bahraini legislators approved a draft law on Sunday that would see value-added tax (VAT) imposed for the first time in the kingdom, state news agency BNA reported. According to...

Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have signed an agreement to provide Bahrain with a $10 billion aid package to execute a reform programme to support...

The High Criminal Court of Bahrain yesterday began the trial of 169 suspects; including 111 in custody on charges of forming and funding the “Bahrain Hezbollah”. The Head of...

Bahrain has stripped 743 people of their citizenship since 2012, the Salam Organisation for Democracy and Human Rights said yesterday. The organisation said in a statement posted on its...

The United States is removing a primary anti-missile air defence system from three Middle Eastern countries as part of a move to distance itself and “rebalance” away from the...

A senior United Arab Emirates (UAE) official warned European powers on Tuesday that it was offering Iran a glimmer of hope by trying to keep trade flowing, but that...

Bahrain charged 169 people on Tuesday suspected of forming “Bahrain’s Hezbollah”, a local version of the armed Shi’ite group, which prosecutors said was trained and backed by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards....

Bahrain yesterday announced that municipal elections will be held in parallel with parliamentary elections on 24 November, the Bahraini News Agency reported. According to the news agency, Prime Minister...

Kuwait has agreed to approve a new Iranian ambassador, but renewed its opposition to sending its own ambassador to Tehran, Alkhaleejonline.net reported on Friday. The news website said that...

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that the path to peace with Palestinians comes through normalising relations with Arab states, Quds Pressreported yesterday. Speaking to the Lithuania’s LRTpublic broadcaster...