Bahrain

On Thursday 7 October, I received a call from the representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees' (UNHCR) Middle East office seeking more assistance to alleviate the...

Qatar's Foreign Minister, Sheikh Mohammed Bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, expressed strong reservations over the so-called Abraham Accords and their potential to bring about peace without addressing the problem of Israel's never-ending...

A Jewish couple's marriage was hosted in Bahrain for the first time in 52 years on Sunday at the Ritz Carlton Manama. Arranged by the Orthodox Union, the world's largest...

Kuwait has decided to allow women to sign up for military service, joining other Gulf Arab states which have enabled female citizens to be part of their armed forces...

Regime forces in Bahrain attacked people protesting against the normalisation of ties with Israel and the opening of the Tel Aviv regime’s embassy in the capital Manama

Bahrain, Russia and other members of the UN Human Rights Council yesterday pushed through a vote to shut down the body's war crimes investigations in Yemen, in a stinging...

Dubbed the Pandora Papers, the cache includes 11.9 million files from companies hired by wealthy clients to create offshore structures and trusts in tax havens

Tunisia's President Kais Saied has signed four contracts with French oil and gas companies within a week, a parliamentarian announced yesterday. Safi Saïd told local media that the pacts...

Bahrain's Kalkidan Gezahegne won the Giants Geneva 10K in 29 minutes 38 seconds on Sunday to take five seconds off the women's world record for a 10km road race...

Scores of British lawmakers, trade unions, NGOs and prominent academics have written to Foreign Secretary Liz Truss to convey their gravest concern over the fate of imprisoned Bahraini academic...

Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid opened the Israeli embassy in Bahrain yesterday, a year after the US-brokered normalisation of ties.

Pinning Palestinians down while applying harsh measures of violent repression accompanied by a fanatical settler movement of arch-racists given free rein to attack and plunder, is a notorious game...

Qatar will host Formula One races in November as part of a ten-year deal announced today. The Gulf state became the third Middle Eastern setting for the grand prix...

Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid will visit Bahrain tomorrow to inaugurate the Israeli Embassy in Manama. "Invited by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Bahrain, Foreign...

Bahrain's government sent a draft bill to parliament for approval to amend the value-added tax rate, currently at five per cent, from next January, the state-run Bahrain News Agency said today....

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett met senior ministers from the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain in New York

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett will meet ministers from Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates on Sunday, his first meetings with Gulf leaders since taking office in June reports...

Relations between Turkey and Bahrain are at an advanced level and cooperation is developing, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said yesterday. During a meeting with his Bahraini counterpart on...

Bahrain has released 30 prisoners conditionally, including 27 political prisoners, under legislation allowing electronic monitoring and house arrest instead. Under the 2017 "alternative sentence" law, prisoners who have served...

Bahrain's first-ever ambassador to Israel, Khaled Yousef Al-Jalahma, said yesterday that it was a "great honour" to present his credentials to President Isaac Herzog, the Times of Israel has...

A Bahraini opposition leader and Secretary-General of the Haq Movement for Liberty and Democracy, Hassan Mushaima, has rejected a conditional royal pardon to release him from prison, describing it...

Bahrain's national airline, Gulf Air, will for the first time launch direct flights to Israel's Tel Aviv on 30 September, the carrier said in a Twitter post yesterday, Reuters reports. "We...

Trade between Israel and Arab states has increased dramatically this year since the normalisation of relations started last year, the Central Bureau of Statistics in the occupation state has...

History will mark the arrival of the first Bahraini ambassador to Israel "as a black spot in the history of Bahrain's rulers", the Islamic Jihad movement said yesterday. The...

Think tanks from Bahrain and Israel are to plan joint programmes following the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) earlier this month. The Abba Eban Institute for International...

Bahrain's Undersecretary for International Relations at Foreign Ministry Shaikh Abdulla Bin Ahmed Al Khalifa discussed reinforcing security relations with Israeli officials during his four-day visit to the occupation state this week, Sama news...

Bahrain's Undersecretary for International Relations Abdullah Bin Ahmad Al Khalifa yesterday slammed the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement saying it has "fed violence and tensions throughout the region", Anadolu reported. During a...

Bahrain has shown "absolute support and full confidence" in the recent measures taken by the President Kais Saied, the Tunisian Foreign Minister, Othman Jerandi, announced yesterday. Following a phone...

Qatar named ambassadors to Egypt and Libya on Thursday, Emir Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al-Thani's office said, as the Gulf Arab state moves to improve ties with some regional...

A British university's affiliations to a Bahraini institution accused of human rights abuses has been highlighted in a parliamentary report following a plea by an 11-year-old boy who insisted that his...

The tail of a Gulf Air passenger aircraft was hit by another plane at Dubai International Airport on Thursday, Bahrain's state news agency BNA reported, in what a Dubai...

A former UK Defence Secretary, Dr Liam Fox, has been appointed by the ambassadors to the UK from Bahrain, UAE and Israel to take up the position of Chair...