US Congressman Ilhan Omar has called on America to put human rights, justice, and peace at the centre of its foreign policy and cited examples in the Middle East...

A Bahraini court sentenced 167 people arrested in 2017 at a sit-in outside the home of Bahrain’s leading Shia Muslim cleric to between six months and 10 years in...

One month after the release of a Bahraini footballer from Thai prison, the Australian government granted him citizenship on Tuesday, Anadolu Agency reports. Hakeem al-Araibi, 25, was formally recognized...

A new WikiLeaks document has raised suspicion over the appointment of Saudi Arabia – one of the world’s worst human rights offenders – to oversee the UN Human Rights...

The United Arab Emirates and Bahrain yesterday suspended all flights to Pakistan “until further notice” after Islamabad closed its airspace. The UAE General Civil Aviation Authority issued a decision...

The Bahraini Court of Cassation yesterday upheld the death penalty against two people and the imprisonment of 20 others on charges of establishing and funding a terrorist group. The...

The top court in Bahrain upheld three-year jail terms against three relatives of a prominent political activist, a rights group said today, in a case the UN describes as...

The Bahrain Supreme Criminal Court yesterday sentenced six people to varying prison terms and stripped five of them of their nationality after finding them guilty of receiving military training...

The sight of Arab foreign ministers meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Warsaw was reminiscent of the meeting between the late Yasser Arafat and Netanyahu’s predecessor Yitzhak...

There are “shared interests” between Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain, Jordan and Israel, the US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Thursday. “The US is building...

FIFA president Gianni Infantino on Friday defended world soccer’s governing body over its perceived lack of action in the case of refugee Bahraini footballer Hakeem Al Araibi, saying it...

Confronting “the Iranian threat” is more important than dealing with the Israel-Palestine issue, Bahrain’s Foreign Minister Khalid Bin Ahmed Al-Khalifa said in a panel discussion at this week’s Warsaw...

US Vice President Mike Pence accused European powers on Thursday of undermining Washington’s crackdown on Iran by trying to break US sanctions against Tehran, in remarks that were likely...

A refugee Bahraini footballer with residency status in Australia boarded a flight for Melbourne early on Tuesday after Bahrain dropped its bid to have him extradited from Thailand, bringing...

White House senior adviser Jared Kushner will travel to at least five Arab countries in late February to brief diplomats on the economic portion of a long-awaited US peace...

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison yesterday said that he was “disturbed” to see Bahraini refugee footballer Hakeem Al-Araibi in shackles in Thailand, adding that he told the Thai prime...

Israel’s foreign ministry announced on Tuesday that it had launched a “virtual embassy” to boost dialogue with the Gulf countries. “We are pleased to announce the re-launch of ‘Israel...

Jailed Bahraini footballer Hakeem Al Araibi, who fled political upheaval in the Middle East nation and has refugee status in Australia, will spend at least two more months in...

The UN Human Rights Office said on Friday there were “serious doubts” whether three Bahraini opposition leaders were given a fair trial after Bahrain’s highest court upheld this week...

UAE Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Anwar Gargash, expressed his country’s objection to the creation of a buffer zone in Syria, while he refused to express his opinion...

The Moroccan government’s spokesperson, Mustapha Al-Khalfi, yesterday denied recent reports, claiming that the North African country was expecting a visit by the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. In a...

Chinese President Xi Jinping called for a return to “unity and harmony” on Thursday as he welcomed gas-rich Qatar’s emir to Beijing, amid a festering dispute that has seen...

The wife of Bahraini footballer Hakeem Al-Oraibi has appealed to Thailand’s prime minister not to deport her husband to Bahrain where she says he will be tortured and possibly...

Iraq supports restoring Syria’s membership to the Arab League, the country’s foreign minister, Mohamed Al-Hakim, said yesterday. Al-Hakim’s remarks came during a press conference held in Russia’s capital of...

The FIFA urged on Tuesday the Thai and Bahraini authorities to act urgently to allow former international Bahraini football player Hakeem Al-Oraibi, who has been held prisoner in Thailand...

On 28 January, Bahrain’s Supreme Court upheld the conviction and life sentence of Sheikh Ali Salman, the leader of the banned opposition Al-Wefaq party. He, along with two colleagues...

Bahrain’s highest court upheld life sentences against three opposition leaders on charges of spying for Qatar, state news agency BNA and a rights group said today. Al-Wefaq Secretary-General Sheikh...

The Asian Football Confederation said on Saturday that President Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim al-Khalifa had had no influence on their handling of the case of a Bahraini player arrested...

The Bahraini Court of Cassation yesterday upheld a previous ruling to dissolve the opposition National Democratic Action Society (Waad) and confiscate its assets including the Al-Ayyam newspaper for “committing...

The Bahrain Centre for Dialogue and Tolerance says it has documented the arrest of more than 5,000 prisoners of conscience, as well as 200 victims of excessive use of...

The Palestinian Radio and TV Corporation opened its office in Syrian capital Damascus yesterday, reinforcing relations between the Palestinian Authority (PA) and the regime of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad....

Qatar’s foreign minister on Monday voiced his country’s readiness to discuss possible means of resolving an ongoing crisis in inter-Arab relations – which first erupted in 2017 – “without...