Bahrain

Israel has started to import aluminium from Bahrain, the occupation state's ambassador in Manama has revealed. Eitan Na'eh made his comments during an interview with Al-Ayam newspaper. "We have...

A common trope over the past decade has been the notion that Lebanon has been "held hostage" by the Hezbollah movement and its chief backer, Iran. This is based...

Lebanon to expel Bahraini opposition group

Lebanon's Parliament Speaker, Nabih Berri, said, Wednesday, his country is under siege, amid a diplomatic crisis with Gulf countries Anadolu News Agency reports. Speaking during a meeting with the...

Israel is banning its citizens from travelling to Britain and Denmark from Wednesday due to concerns over the spread of the Omicron coronavirus variant. Sharon Alroy-Preis, Israel's Director of...

Egypt's Foreign Minister, Sameh Shoukry, yesterday headed to the Saudi capital, Riyadh, to inaugurate a so-called "political consultation mechanism" between Egypt and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. The...

Neither Miss Morocco nor Miss Bahrain made it into the final 10

Bahrain's largest Roman Catholic church held the first Mass on Sunday, Anadolu Agency reported. Father Saji Thomas led the Mass in "Our Lady of Arabia" church, which is located 20 kilometres...

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman arrived in Doha yesterday for the first time since Riyadh and several Arab allies imposed an embargo on Qatar in mid-2017. The de-facto ruler,...

Bahrain's ambassador to Israel, Khaled Yousef Al-Jalahma, attended a Hanukkah candle-lighting ceremony last night at Tel Aviv's Sheba Medical Centre. According to the Jerusalem Post, this was the first...

Three "breakthroughs" made by Abu Dhabi in the past months, call for reflection: The first was with Israel, as relations have gone beyond the normal level of opening embassies...

Bahrain's King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa is to inaugurate the largest Catholic church in the Arabian Peninsula on 9 December, a day before it will be consecrated in front...

Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Sudan on Sunday suspended flights with a number of African countries due to the Omicron variant of the coronavirus discovered in South Africa, Anadolu reports....

Iranian drones targeting Saudi Arabia fly over Bahraini airspace, the Israeli envoy to Manama said yesterday. Itay Tagner told the US' Axios that Iran had opened a "front against...

Bahrain has been ordered by the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague to pay $240 million damages in addition to the litigation costs of two Iranian state-owned banks...

Israel's Charge d'Affaires in Bahrain, Itay Tagner, has been seen discussing with Indonesia's Defence Minister Prabowo Subianto in a rare public exchange between officials of the two countries at...

US Defence Secretary, Lloyd Austin, will travel to Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) this week, a Pentagon spokesman said Tuesday and Anadolu News Agency reports. "He'll meet...

British members of parliament have called on Prime Minister Boris Johnson to scrap a taxpayer-funded multimillion pound programme for Gulf states, following their involvement in the Israeli Pegasus spyware...

An ongoing joint naval exercise by the US, Israel, UAE and Bahrain in the Red Sea is "a message to Iran," a senior Israeli military official said on Friday....

A revolution may be defined as "a forcible overthrow of a government or social order, in favour of a new system." With this in mind, it becomes clear that...

Forces from the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Israel and the United States Naval Forces Central Command (NAVCENT) began a multilateral maritime security operations exercise in the Red Sea yesterday,...

Bahraini lawmaker, Abdulrazzaq Hattab, has issued a scathing condemnation of India for the violence against Muslim which has increased in the country over the years, threatening to start a...

United Arab Emirates and Bahrain are working on establishing a joint investment fund to invest in both countries and abroad, UAE State News Agency (WAM) reported today. It added...

Germany, on Friday, voiced concerned about the ongoing tensions between Lebanon and several Gulf states over critical remarks by a Lebanese minister regarding the Saudi military campaign in Yemen....

Lebanese Minister of Information, George Kordahi, will resign if the Gulf countries provide guarantees that this will change their position towards Lebanon, Anadolu news agency reported. The agency quoted sources close...

The United States yesterday called for opening diplomatic channels between Lebanon and the Gulf states, after tensions mounted following the release of statements by Lebanese Minister of Information, George...

On Tuesday, Israeli Prime Minister, Naftali Bennett, met Bahraini Crown Prince and Prime Minister, Salman bin Hamad Al-Khalifa for the first time since the two countries normalised their ties...

Bahrain today called on its citizens in Lebanon to leave immediately, the state news agency reported. Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain and Kuwait have recently withdrawn their ambassadors from Beirut in protest against...

The first-ever dating app and website for Jews in Gulf countries have been launched, following the first Jewish wedding in over 50 years held in the Gulf island of Bahrain...

Lebanon's Information Minister George Kordahi said in a television interview Yemen's Houthis are only defending themselves from external aggression in the form of the Saudi-led coalition causing a diplomatic row

Saudi Arabia and Bahrain have instructed Lebanese ambassadors to leave their capitals within 48 hours amid criticism about Saudi Arabia regarding the Yemeni war, Anadolu Agency reported on Saturday....

The United States and Bahrain have conducted joint naval exercises in the Gulf waters, in which they integrated unmanned ships and systems into existing maritime tactics for the first...