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...

The use of torture and the death penalty have "significantly increased" in Bahrain over the past decade, since the Arab Spring uprising in 2011, a new report has revealed....

Bahrain's health minister yesterday praised her country's relations with Turkey, Anadolu Agency reports. During her reception with Turkish Ambassador to Bahrain Esin Cakil, Faeqa bint Saeed Al Saleh expressed...

British MPs are calling on the government to suspend a "secretive" multi-million-pound funding programme to Gulf countries over concerns that Saudi Arabia and Bahrain may have channelled taxpayers' money...

Influencers from the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain, and Morocco met in Israel last month for a tour of the country in a bid to celebrate last year's Abraham...

A Swiss court ordered the son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's oil minister to pay $1.5 million in a corruption case today, a decision that his lawyer said...

Bahrain has formally appointed the country's first-ever ambassador to Israel, the state-run Bahrain News Agency (BNA) reported yesterday. Khaled Yousef Al-Jalahmah, who will be serving as Bahrain's envoy to Israel, was...

A UN expert has called on Bahrain to release three human rights defenders immediately. The three have been held in long term detention solely because of their legitimate promotion...

The six countries forming the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) will remain heavily dependent on hydrocarbon production for at least the next ten years, despite efforts to diversify their economies,...

Qatar's foreign minister today received Saudi Arabia's new ambassador to Doha, the first to be reinstated by Arab states that had agreed to end a row with Qatar earlier this year,...

The foreign ministers of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) met yesterday in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, to follow up on the implementation of the decisions made at the Al-Ula...

Outgoing Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, praised the normalisation agreements his government signed with Arab countries, starting with the UAE and Bahrain. Netanyahu's statements came before the Knesset special...

A Bahraini activist serving a life sentence has died after contracting COVID-19, the interior ministry and activists said on Wednesday, reported by Reuters, as the tiny Gulf state fights...

Saudi Arabia is hosting a joint air exercise with several Arab states at the Prince Sultan Air Base, according to an announcement yesterday by the Ministry of Defence. The...

Hebrew media reported that the chief of the national intelligence agency of Israel (Mossad), Yossi Cohen, is considering joining a new investment fund that will work with the Gulf...

Bahrain's Public Prosecution yesterday referred the Central Bank of Iran and 12 other banks to criminal trial on charges of laundering over $1.3 billion using the Manama-based Future Bank,...

Lebanon's foreign minister asked the president to be relieved of his duties today, the presidency said, after his comments in a television interview strained ties with traditional Gulf Arab...

In another indication of the illegitimacy of Middle Eastern despots in the eyes of their people, Arab countries are deeply divided over the condemnation of Israel following its onslaught...

Iraqi MP Hassan Salem called on Sunday for the government in Baghdad to cut ties with the Gulf States that have signed normalisation deals with Israel, namely the UAE...

The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) called on Sunday for an immediate halt to what it described as Israel's barbaric attacks on Gaza and blamed "systematic crimes" against the...

The United Arab Emirates will bar entry to non-UAE resident travellers from Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nepal and Sri Lanka starting Wednesday to try to contain the spread of the coronavirus, Reuters reported...

I've read several books on Islam's Sunni-Shia split, with each having provided informative insights on this ancient schism steeped in both theology and politics. The latter is the primary...

An Israeli research centre has addressed the rapprochement between Saudi Arabia and Iran, stressing that this step constitutes a significant breach in the anti-Iran front that Israel seeks to...

A Torah scroll commissioned by former White House senior advisor Jared Kushner and presented to Bahrain's King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa last year has been taken to the recently...

Bahrain's flag carrier Gulf Air has announced that it has begun selling tickets ahead of its first direct flights to Israel's Tel Aviv commencing on 3 June. The airline's...

A Bahraini political prisoner has died at a detention centre, which the authorities have claimed was due to "natural causes." However, the kingdom's main opposition group Al-Wefaq, which was...

Jordan's neighbours and allies reacted with statements of support after the Jordanian military said on Saturday that King Abdullah's half-brother and former Crown Prince Hamza bin Hussein had been...

Bahrain has appointed its first ambassador to Israel and has set up its diplomatic mission there according to a royal decree issued on Tuesday. The envoy was named as...

Israel's National Security Council has warned its citizens that Iran may target them overseas and urged them to be more vigilant, citing threats by Iranian officials, the Times of Israel reported....

Bahraini authorities today said a number of cases of coronavirus discovered in a prison earlier this week had been isolated and the individuals concerned were in a stable condition, Reuters reports....