DUBAI: Of all Qatar’s policy innovations since a coup brought the emir, Sheik Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, to power in 1995, its overt alliance with...
RABAT: Reforms that took the wind out of Arab Spring protests in Morocco last year have proven hollow and real power still lies with King Mohammad VI and his...
DOHA: The Muslim Brotherhood has no intention of monopolizing the revolt in Syria, the group’s deputy leader said, despite fears its close ties with...
DUBAI: Five bombs exploded in the heart of the Bahraini capital Manama on Monday, killing two Asian street cleaners, officials said, and prompting mutual...
SANAA: Yemen’s interim president has won U.S. praise for cooperating in the war on Al-Qaeda, but his recent public support for drone strikes that...
JAAR, Yemen: Yemenis who fled the fighting after al Qaeda militants occupied their home towns are now under pressure to go home, but many are hesitating for...
ADEN, Yemen: Yemeni separatist leaders, exploiting a weakening of central authority and freer political atmosphere since a national uprising last year, have...
SANAA: When riots erupted this month over an anti-Islam film made in California, Houthi rebels, long confined to remote corners of Yemen by then-President Ali...
SANAA: Seven months after he reluctantly handed over the presidency, Ali Abdullah Saleh's continuing sway over Yemen is worrying Gulf neighbours and...
DUBAI: A Bahraini civilian court upheld Tuesday sentences of up to life in prison against leaders of last year’s pro-democracy uprising, saying that...
DUBAI: A Bahraini civilian court on Tuesday upheld jail sentences of between five and 25 years against leaders of last year's pro-democracy uprising, a...
DUBAI: Bahrain has criticized Iranian officials over a mistranslation of a speech by Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi, which replaced the word...
DUBAI: Bahrain on Tuesday delayed until Sept. 4 a ruling in the retrial of 20 men convicted of leading an uprising, lawyers said, a case under scrutiny from...
DUBAI: Bahraini opposition parties should denounce violence to demonstrate their desire for political progress, a government minister said on Thursday after...
DUBAI: Bahrain's crown prince has ordered police to exercise restraint in dealing with protesters and to avoid sectarian discrimination, as opposition...
DUBAI: A Bahrain court has dissolved a Shi'ite Islamist political party which has played a role in the Gulf Arab state's wave of unrest, on the...
DUBAI: Saudi Arabia said on Monday two men had been killed following Sunday's arrest of a prominent Shi'ite Muslim cleric that stirred some limited...
DUBAI: A prominent Bahraini protest leader, Nabeel Rajab, was sentenced to three months in prison on Monday over a tweet against the prime minister which the...
DUBAI: Bahrain's King Hamad said on Wednesday he would not allow any more "insults" of the armed forces in the Gulf state in an apparent warning...
DUBAI: Bahrain's interior minister said in comments published on Wednesday that police had been given no orders to torture or kill protesters - practices...
DUBAI: Bahrain justified moves to ban a small Islamist group on Monday by saying a radical Shi'ite cleric based abroad was its spiritual leader, while the...
SANAA: A Yemeni Islamist group linked to Al-Qaeda said on Friday it had released 27 soldiers taken prisoner, after they vowed to quit the U.S.-backed...
DUBAI: Saudi Arabia’s thrust for a Gulf Union, driven by fear of Arab Spring contagion and spreading Iranian influence, has stumbled on misgivings among...
DUBAI/RIYADH: Saudi Arabia and Bahrain are expected to announce closer political union at a meeting of Gulf Arab leaders Monday, a Bahraini minister said, in...
DUBAI: Bahraini opposition activists said they blocked roads with burning tyres on Thursday to demand the release of women prisoners, many of them locked up...