A Bahraini court yesterday revoked the citizenship for 115 people and issued various sentences against 71 others accused of committing terrorist acts. The Fourth Criminal Court sentenced 53 people...

At a critical moment for Palestinians Abu Dhabi and Manama are moving ahead with normalisation with Israel, just as Riyadh did before them. The Associated Press (AP) and the Washington Post...

Israel has the right to defend itself against Iranian threats, Bahraini Foreign Minister, Khalid Bin Ahmed, wrote on Twitter yesterday. “As long as Iran has violated the status quo...

Palestinians in Jerusalem have expressed their anger at a Bahraini-UAE delegation’s participation in the so-called Giro d’Italia race of 2018, to be held in Israel this year. A spokesman...

Saudi Arabia has ranked third across the world with military spending which reached $69.4 billion in 2017. It replaces Russia, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) said in...

Official data that has recently been published showed rising of gasoline prices sold domestically in the UAE, Oman and Qatar in May, compared to the previous month. This coincided...

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi has issued a presidential decree permitting the King of Bahrain, Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa, to own two villas located in the South Sinai province...

The world was surprised on Friday morning by a historical scene that was no less powerful than the destruction of the Berlin Wall more than a quarter of a...

The state-owned Qatar Petroleum (QP) has signed an agreement to supply Vietnam with up to two million tonnes of LPG and Naphtha per year for a period of 15...

Qatari Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani has said that Saudi Arabia’s ultimatum over Doha sending troops to Syria or losing US support is not even worth responding to....

Bahrain’s Military Court of Cassation upheld the death sentences on Wednesday given to four civilians convicted of charges including the formation of a terrorist cell and the assassination of...

  The Middle East is considered to be the most dangerous and difficult region for journalism according to a Reporters Without Borders announcement, Wednesday. North Korea, however, is still...

The announcement that Donald Trump’s scheduled summit to discuss the boycott of Qatar with Gulf leaders next month has been postponed suggests that the various parties are sinking deeper...

Bahrain’s Foreign Minister, Khalid bin Ahmed Al-Khalifa, has called for the prosecution of Qatar’s Al-Jazeera TV channel for “spreading lies and rumours that cause confusion in our countries”. Khalifa...

Qatar will not be represented by a senior official at an Arab summit taking place in Saudi Arabia on Sunday, in a sign that a nearly year-old dispute between...

Four Arab states who cut relations with Qatar over its close ties with Iran and Turkey are sticking to an ultimatum they issued the Gulf state last year, Egypt’s MENA...

In a telephone call this month with Saudi Arabia’s King Salman, President Donald Trump demanded that the kingdom and its Arab partners quickly end a nearly year-old dispute with...

US President Donald Trump yesterday reversed his criticism of Qatar for funding terrorism, claiming that Doha was unfairly maligned by Gulf States, US News reported. “You’ve now become a...

Qatar is making fast progress in preparation of hosting the 2022 World Cup, the Qatari Finance Minister, Ali Sherif Al-Emadi, announced yesterday. Speaking to Reuters, Al-Emadi said that 90 per...

The chair of the European Parliament’s Subcommittee on Human Rights (DROI), Pier Antonio Panzeri, said on Saturday that he intends to discuss at Parliament the repercussions of the blockade...

Prince Andrew, the Duke of York, officially inaugurated Britain’s new Naval Support Facility in Bahrain today, along with the tiny nation’s Crown Prince Salman Bin Hamad Al-Khalifa, Gulf News...

Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani will meet US President Donald Trump on April 10 in Washington, the state news agency QNA reported on late Thursday. Trump met...

Bahraini authorities have barred a Danish parliamentarian and an Irish human rights activist, who were scheduled to meet Bahraini activists, from entering Manama yesterday, according to Al-Khaleej Online. Danish...

Qatar Airways has announced that it may buy up to 25 per cent of shares in Russia’s Vnukovo Airport. A statement released by the airline read: “Qatar Airways is...

A new discovery off the coast of Bahrain is estimated to contain at least 80 billion barrels of tight oil, the kingdom’s biggest ever find, its oil minister said...

Bahrain’s Minister of Foreign Affairs has claimed that the island state will not look to mitigate the blockade of Qatar, Gulf News reported yesterday. “With what we see from...

Iraqi women are ramping up pressure to abolish a law that lets rapists off the hook if they marry their victims, after Tunisia, Jordan and Lebanon scrapped similar articles...

Three trade unions from Morocco, Sudan, and Bahrain have signed a partnership and cooperation agreement on a number of issues, including defending Palestinian workers. The agreement was signed on...

Two Qatari fighter jets flew dangerously close to two civilian aircraft from the United Arab Emirates while they were in Bahraini airspace on Monday, the UAE’s state news agency...

Bahrain will take “tough measures” against the “chaos” which is caused by social media users and which harms the Kingdom’s social fabric and stability, the interior minister said yesterday....

Qatar’s Foreign Minister Mohamed Ben Abdul-Rahman reaffirmed his country’s view that the current Gulf crisis was instigated by regional countries that conspired to carry out regime change his country....

Sayed Ahmed AlWadaei, a prominent Bahraini rights campaigner exiled in Britain, said on Saturday a Bahraini court had sentenced his wife to two months in jail in absentia this week and...