Qatar Petroleum (QP) yesterday announced the launch of the Egyptian Refining Company (ERC)’s in the Mostorod refinery plant located in the north of the Egyptian capital city of Cairo....

The Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, described on Tuesday the decision undertaken by Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt to boycott his...

Israel recently participated in the Bahrain conference for maritime security after Gulf countries invited it to take part in protecting the maritime facilities for fear of Iranian and Houthi...

Turkey has no issue with neither Saudi Arabia nor the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Turkish foreign minister, Mevlut Cavusoglu, stressed yesterday. Speaking in an interview with Al-Jazeera, Cavusoglu said...

WhatsApp said in a statement that 100 civil society members had been targeted, and called it "an unmistakable pattern of abuse"

A Bahraini activist who was sexually assaulted and tortured whilst imprisoned over a Facebook post criticising the Formula 1 race being held in her country, has said she had...

British sprint specialist Mark Cavendish is joining Bahrain Merida for the 2020 season, the professional cycling team said on Friday, reports Reuters. The “Manx Missile”, who has won 30...

Palestinian resistance group Hamas has decried Israel’s participation in a US-led maritime security meeting in Bahrain. Israel’s Channel 13 reported that an Israeli delegation would attend the event, due...

An Israeli delegation will attend a US-led maritime security meeting to be held Sunday in Bahrain, Israel’s Channel 13 reported on Saturday. Noting that there were no diplomatic relations...

Authorities in Bahrain are denying prisoners adequate health care, Human Rights Watch warned in a statement on Tuesday. HRW said Bahrain’s prison authorities arbitrarily deprive prisoners of urgent health...

The UAE has announced that it is lifting the travel ban to Lebanon on its citizens starting from Tuesday. Emirates News Agency (WAM) quoted Khalid Belhoul, undersecretary of the...

Saudi Arabia announced, Wednesday, it’s joining of the International Alliance for the Safety and Protection of Maritime Navigation and Insurance of the Safety of Seaways. The official SPA news...

US Defense Secretary Mark Esper and Bahrain Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad al-Khalifa discussed Tuesday issues of mutual security concern, the Pentagon said amid heightened tensions in the region...

Hezbollah Secretary General Sayed Hassan Nasrallah said today that his organisation has “no red lines” when it came to responding to acts of “Israeli aggression” on Lebanon. In a...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hailed Bahrain and the UAE on Tuesday for their criticism of Hezbollah and Lebanon, local media have reported. “I welcome the statements by Bahrain’s...

Bahrain’s Foreign Minister Khalid Bin Ahmed Al Khalifa has defended Israel’s recent attacks on Iraq, Syria and Lebanon as “self-defence”, in yet another sign of normalising relations between the...

Despite the fact that India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently revoked the special status that granted rights to Kashmir and its people to make their own constitution, the government...

The decision by the Gibraltar authorities to release supertanker Grace 1 will slightly ease tensions between Britain and Iran, but not for long. Relations between the two states have...

Turkey will open a new military base in Qatar this autumn, daily Hürriyet reported yesterday. “A new Turkish base has been built near Qatar’s Tariq Ibn Ziyad military base,” Hürriyet correspondent, Hande Fırat,...

Bahraini Foreign Minister Khaled Bin Ahmed Al Khalifa yesterday received salutations for the Muslim celebration of Eid from his Israeli counterpart and “friend” Yisrael Katz. “My friend Khalid Bin...

Bahrain urged Iran in a statement on Thursday “to stop issuing threats and committing any acts that may cause tensions” in the Arabian Gulf and the region, reports Anadolu...

Last month the Egyptian government demolished Bedouin-owned houses in Tarabin village in South Sinai on the grounds that they were not “legally” owned

Iran and Qatar held their fifteenth coast guard meeting yesterday in order to enhance relations and develop field cooperation, according to Iranian media. The meeting, held in the Iranian...

Most pundits and commentators agree that the US-sponsored “Peace to Prosperity” workshop, which was organised by the most ardent pro-Israel partisans of US President Donald Trump’s administration in Manama,...

The King of Bahrain Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa has rejected a request by Israel to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Manama, according to a source who informed...

An Egyptian government source has told Al-Monitor that authorities have banned the publication of unofficial information about the Peace to Prosperity workshop in Manama. The international conference held in...

Protests broke out in Bahrain after the execution of two Shia Muslim activists on terrorism-related charges revived tension over the weekend in the Sunni-led kingdom, a Western ally that...

The police were called out as the protester stumbled about on the roof

Bahrain executed three men by firing squad on Saturday morning

The UAE has proposed that it hosts the second “deal of the century” meeting, Al-Khaleej Online reported yesterday. Citing Arab sources, the site said Abu Dhabi sent a message...

Iran has condemned the execution of two Shia activists in Bahrain on terrorism-related charges, Anadolu reports. On Saturday, Bahraini authorities executed two men on charges of joining a “terrorist”...

Bahrain executed on Saturday three men convicted in two separate cases, one involving the killing of a police officer and the other the killing of a mosque imam, the...