Palestinians will stay away from a US-led conference in Bahrain next month that the Trump administration has cast as an overture to its own plan for peace between them...

The Trump administration yesterday announced an economic “workshop” in Bahrain in June, as the White House begins to roll out its so-called “peace plan” for Israel and the Palestinians....

US President Donald Trump issued a new threat to Tehran on Sunday, tweeting that a conflict would be the “official end” of Iran, as Saudi Arabia warned it stood...

Egypt called on Qatar to end “arbitrary detentions and enforced disappearances” against Qatari nationals, the state-run Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported on Wednesday, citing a speech delivered by Egypt’s...

Qatar inaugurated the first of seven new World Cup 2022 stadiums on Thursday, just weeks before a crucial FIFA summit will decide whether to expand the tournament and potentially...

The Bahraini Ministry of Finance announced that it will receive $2.3 billion as part of a Gulf aid package announced in October 2018. In October, Bahrain received pledges from...

Bahrain’s premier yesterday phoned Qatar’s Emir to mark the first day of Ramadan, Qatari media said, but Manama said the call, a rare exchange amid a two-year boycott of...

Bahrain’s highest court slapped 19 people with jail terms after they were convicted of maintaining links with Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps and Lebanon’s Hezbollah group, as reported on Anadolu...

A Bahraini court has rejected a motion filed by lawyers of prominent activist Nabeel Rajab asking it to pass an alternative to the jail term he is currently serving,...

Qatar will not grant visas to those it considers “enemies”, the secretary-general of the National Tourism Council said in reference to Egyptians seeking to enter the country amid an...

Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al-Thani on Tuesday received the heads of delegations participating in the 16th Ministerial Meeting of the Asia Cooperation Dialogue (ACD) in Doha....

Activists have launched a new drive to tackle the increasing wave of normalisation with  the Israeli occupation in the Gulf, Al-Khaleej Online reported yesterday. The Gulf Coalition Against Normalisation...

Bahrain yesterday denied recent statements on alleged calls by the French President Emmanuel Macron to the Gulf state’s king, Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa, to resume a political dialogue with...

Saudi Arabia said yesterday it looks forward to relations between Bahrain and Iraq based on mutual respect and which contribute to regional security and stability. This came during a...

The Supreme Court in Bahrain has upheld a two-year prison sentence issued to a foreign woman who walked naked in the street, local newspaper Al-Ayam reported. According to Mesryoon.com,...

The Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani has appointed Fahd Ibrahim Al-Mana, as the country’s ambassador to the Kingdom of Morocco, Qatar News Agency (QNA) reported. The...

Iraq’s Foreign Ministry has decried the Bahraini foreign minister’s “offence” to prominent Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and demanded an official apology. On Saturday, Bahraini Foreign Minister Khaled Al Khalifa...

Iraq has reiterated its rejection of the blockade imposed by Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain on Qatar since June 2017, stressing on the need to resolve...

Bahrain’s king, Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, reinstated nationality to 551 people stripped of their citizenship by courts in the Gulf Arab state, state news agency BNA said on...

A court in Bahrain has convicted 139 people of terrorism offences during a mass trial, revoking the citizenship of all but one, according to an Amnesty International press release....

Israeli Economy Minister Eli Cohen last week cancelled a planned visit to Bahrain last week over security concerns, Israeli media reported yesterday. Cohen should have travelled to the Gulf...

Saudi Arabia’s King Salman Bin Abdulaziz yesterday arrived in the Bahraini capital of Manama in a visit that was said to be aimed at “saving the Gulf state’s economy”....

A United Arab Emirates female pilot running to head the UN aviation agency’s governing council said she is capable of playing a “bridging role” in trying to resolve an...

Former Jordanian MP Hind Al-Fayiz said that a number of Gulf States “put pressure on Jordan and blockaded it in order for it to accept the ‘deal of the...

Several Israeli speakers are set to feature at the Global Entrepreneurship Congress in Bahrain later this month, a sign of growing normalisation between the Gulf states and Israel. According...

Arab leaders said on Sunday they would seek a UN Security Council resolution against the US decision to recognise Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights and promised to support...

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Policies pursued by the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries to reduce the number of expatriates and replace them with local citizens over the past few years are increasing pressure...

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...