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Bahraini Security authorities Wednesday held at Manama international airport a Danish lawmaker who was seeking to meet Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, a Bahraini activist sentenced to life imprisonment in 2011 for conspiring against the state, AFP reports. Lars Aslan Rasmussen, a social Read more
Doha announced Wednesday it received an invitation to attend this month Arab League Summit to take place in Riyadh, for the first time since the tiny gas-rich Gulf country has been sidelined by its Gulf neighbors, namely Saudi Arabia, United Read more
US President Donald Trump’s planned summit with leaders of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) is likely to be postponed until September, after the wholly month of Ramadan, Reuters has learned. Five US sources knowledgeable of the conference who requested to Read more
Bahraini State authorities announced Sunday the discovery of the country’s so far largest oil and gas field whose production could exceed current oil and gas yield. The tiny Gulf oil producer and non-OPEC member currently explores two oil fields, namely Read more
United Arab Emirates complained Monday that two Qatari war jets got too close to two Emirati commercial aircrafts in the Bahraini airspace. The Emirati commercial aircrafts, according to the country’s civil aviation Authority, cited by state-run news agency, were in Read more
Saudi Arabia has tossed Turkey in the ‘triangle of evil’, which includes arch rival Iran and extremist Islamist groups as tensions between the two countries hype over Ankara’s support to Qatar in the diplomatic row opposing the tiny Gulf country Read more
A BBC report based on obtained leaked e-mails revealed that United Arab Emirates (UAE) army Chief, Mohammed bin Zayed, who is also Abu Dhabi Crown Prince, attempted to secure the sacking of US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson for failing Read more
Bahrain’s Interior Ministry has announced of arrest of 116 men all allegedly members of a cell linked to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, in an operation which enabled security forces to seize arms and ammunitions to be used in attacks against state Read more
A documentary aired Sunday on Doha-based al Jazeera held Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain and Egypt responsible for the 1996 failed coup against the former Emir of Qatar, on grounds of testimonies by alleged participants in the coup. Read more
Mohamed Bin Salman will visit Egypt at the start of his first trip abroad as heir to the Saudi throne. The trip will also lead him to London, Paris and Washington. Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman will spend two days Read more