Leading News Source For Middle East
Iraqi militia groups fighting on the side of national army to quash the Islamic State group (IS) said Thursday they will return weapons they use to the Iraqi army as US and Saudi Arabia worry the groups might be used Read more
The small Gulf monarchy Wednesday accused Iran of masterminding last month bomb attack on a police bus, which killed one officer and wounded several others. Authorities, in an initial statement last month, indicated that an unidentified terror cell was behind Read more
Two Bahraini Shia critics, known as members of the opposition, were charged Wednesday for espionage for Qatar in an attempt to destabilize the tiny Gulf monarchy, in what looks like a deepening of the diplomatic spat between Qatar on the Read more
Nineteen men, all Shias, were handed jail sentences ranging from life in prison, to 15 and 10 years after a court found them guilty of spying for Iran and Hezbollah and for plotting to overthrow the ruling family. Eight of Read more
A Friday terror attack against a police bus outside capital Manama left one police officer dead and eight agents injured, the interior ministry announced Sunday. The ministry imputed the attack to a terror group, which remotely detonated a bomb causing Read more
Saudi Arabia Wednesday resumed air links with neighboring Iraq by directing flights of its low-cost carrier flynas to the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, 27 years following last direct flights between the two countries. “We worked hard to see that flynas flights Read more
An explosion said to be from a car bomb killed several people Monday in Sadr City district of the Iraqi capital, at a busy wholesale market, situated in Shia-populated area of Jamila. The explosion ripped through the crowd killing at Read more
Former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh Thursday was reaffirmed as key player in restoration of peace in the poorest Arab country as thousands of supporters of the deposed leader turned up at a rally in capital Sanaa to defy Shia Read more
The Shia Hezbollah movement Monday criticized the Islamic State group (ISIS) over its last week twin attacks in Catalonia, in which 15 civilians were killed, saying that attacks ‘tarnish the image of jihad’. The movement, according to its ally media Read more
A criminal Court in Jeddah found a man guilty of attack against the state and of endorsement of Lebanon-based Shia group Hezbollah, blacklisted as a terrorist group by Saudi Arabia and other members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). The Read more