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...

The airlines of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Oman and Bahrain are preparing to resume direct air traffic to the Syrian capital of Damascus, the director general of Syrian...

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrived in Bahrain on Friday for the fourth leg of a nine-nation tour of the Middle East, Reuters reports. According to the US-funded Al-Hurra television...

The US troop withdrawal from Syria will not be scuppered despite Turkish threats against Washington’s Kurdish allies there, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Wednesday, promising to ensure...

The two men in the Trump administration in charge of setting America’s global priorities are crisscrossing the Middle East this week, dividing up an already deeply divided region, trying...

Bahrain’s high court upheld on Monday a five-year jail sentence against human rights activist Nabeel Rajab, his lawyer said, in a move described by campaign groups as “political persecution”...

Syria has disclosed a blacklist of 731 people it accuses of supporting and sponsoring terror, Arabi21 reported yesterday. The names include scores of academics, former officials from the Gulf...

The Muslim Brotherhood in Syria on Saturday slammed decisions by some Arab countries to reopen their embassies in the capital Damascus ruled by regime President Bashar Al-Assad. The group...

Bahrain’s embassy in Damascus and the Syrian diplomatic mission in Manama have been operating “without interruption” the Bahraini foreign ministry said in a statement today, a day after the...

Bahrain’s Foreign Ministry summoned the deputy charge d’affaires of the embassy of Iraq on Monday to denounce footage of former Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki criticising Manama’s crackdown on...

On 17 December 2010, Tunisian street vendor Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire outside the governor’s office, despondent at being unable to earn money and provide for his family....

The foreign minister of US ally Bahrain has defended Australia’s formal recognition of West Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, saying the move would not affect a future Palestinian state with...

Qatar said on Saturday it remained committed to the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) but the bloc needed to enforce its own rules better, signalling a reformed alliance could help...

Israel should be careful in its relationship with Gulf countries, the former Deputy Chief of the General Staff Yair Golan warned yesterday. Speaking at a conference in the Jerusalem Institute for Strategic...

A Gulf Arab summit called for regional unity as Bahrain and Qatar traded barbs over the Qatari emir’s decision not to attend the gathering in Saudi Arabia on Sunday...

Australia’s Foreign Minister Marise Payne has urged Thai authorities on Sunday to release a footballer who holds a refugee status in Australia and who has been detained in Bangkok...

Bahrain’s foreign minister criticised Qatar’s emir on Sunday for not attending an annual Gulf Arab summit in Saudi Arabia, a decision that shows there is little hope for an...

The President of Qatar’s National Human Rights Committee (NHRC) has said the European Union (EU) must do more to end the humanitarian tragedy caused by the ongoing blockade of...

FIFA called on Friday for Bahraini footballer Hakim Al-Oraibi, who is being detained in Thailand, to be returned to Australia. Al-Oraibi was detained upon arriving at Thailand’s Bangkok Airport...

We do not need to be very smart to realise that the main reason behind the Saudi Crown Prince’s visits aboard, since the brutal murder of Jamal Khashoggi, is...

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman arrived in Algeria on Sunday from Mauritania, resuming a tour of Arab countries after attending the G20 summit in Argentina, Reuters reports. Prime Minister...

A US admiral in the Middle East was found dead in his residence in Bahrain, the Navy said Saturday. Vice Adm. Scott Stearney was the commander of the US...

Bahraini voters cast ballot yesterday in the second round of the country’s parliamentary and municipal election. The first round of the vote was held last week, in which only nine parliamentary seats were decided. Voters cast...

Former Bahraini football player Hakim Al-Oraibi appealed on Thursday to the Australian government not to deport him because he would face “dangerous circumstances”. Al-Oraibi expressed his worries after he...

Member of Hamas’ political bureau Mahmoud Al-Zahar announced that he is heading a Palestinian parliamentary delegation on a foreign tour aimed at mobilising support for the Palestinian people. In...

Secretary General of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Abdel-Latif Zayyani is to visit Qatar to hand over the invitation of Saudi Arabia’s King Salman Bin Abdel-Aziz to Qatari Emir...

Qatar will more than double its naval forces by 2025 as a massive new base comes online and it expands a national service programme amid a protracted dispute with...

From Khartoum, where the Arab summit in late August 1967 announced its Three No’s: no peace with Israel, no recognition of Israel, and no negotiations with it, a leader...

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman has arrived in the Tunisian capital Tunis on Tuesday afternoon. While officials have not disclosed its details and program, the visit comes amid...

FIFA President, Gianni Infantino, believes that football has the power to "build bridges"

Given the increasing possibility of running for early elections, the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made sure to achieve public and media achievements y means of revealing relations that...