Bahrain News

The top U.S. Navy official in the Gulf said Sunday he takes Iran's military capabilities seriously but insists his forces are prepared to confront any Iranian aggression in the region.

Anti-government protesters face off with riot police, seen rear, who entered the western village of Malkiya, Bahrain, as residents were marching and shouting slogans against the government Saturday, Feb.

Mashreq Bahrain, a financial institution, and Bahrain's national carrier Gulf Air announced the signing of a financial facility of $80m for the airline.

Bahrain's King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa attends the official inauguration ceremony of the King Hamad Hospital in Muharraq, north of Manama February 6, 2012.

MANAMA: Bahrain's King Hamad dismissed the country's opposition movement as disunited and said the threat of Iran had compelled him to call in foreign troops to crush last year's uprising.

Anti-government protests in Bahrain were suppressed last year with the help of Saudi Arabia, but the tensions between the Sunni leadership and the Shia majority population are never far below the surface.

Capital Club, Bahrain's premier private business club, announced today that 2011 was a highly successful year of achievements in terms of fulfilling its vision as the leading facilitator for high end networking within Bahrain's elite business community.

MANAMA, Bahrain - A Bahraini rights activists says two Americans have been detained as part of security crackdowns before the first anniversary of the anti-government uprising in the Gulf kingdom.

Bahraini police fired tear gas and sound grenades to break up protests by anti-government demonstrators on Saturday as they tried to march towards Manama's Pearl Roundabout, centre of a failed uprising last year.

Huwaida Arraf & Radhika Sainath in Police Custody - US Citizens Huwaida Arraf and Radhika Sainath were arrested by Bahraini security forces in Manama on Saturday during a peaceful protest in near the Standard Chartered Bank downtown.

PanARMENIAN.Net - Bahraini forces have injured three people after firing tear gas at dozens of demonstrators ahead of the anniversary of Shiite-led protests crushed in March, an opposition activist said on Saturday, Feb 11.

RIYADH: In cooperation with Al Faisal University, Riyadh was the first stop of the pan GCC universities tour to alert students on the depleting sources of precious water and to encourage them to take an active role in safe guarding this natural resource that we tend to take for granted.

Tensions are growing in the tiny Persian Gulf kingdom of Bahrain. Protests by Shiites in outlying areas are growing ahead of next week's anniversary of the uprising.

Riot police did not immediately intervene as crowds headed to an empty lot dubbed 'Freedom Square' in the village of Miqsha outside the capital Manama.

MANILA, Philippines - Twenty-one Filipino crew members of a Greek-owned but Liberiaflagged ship were kidnapped by Somali pirates off the western coast of the Socotra Islands in Yemen on Tuesday, the Department of Foreign Affairs confirmed Friday.

Despite being a small island the Gulf state of Bahrain benefits from a relatively vibrant civil society - but activists want more freedom.

British and Qatari troops are directing rebel ammunition deliveries and tactics in the bloody battle for Homs, according to an Israeli website known for links to intelligence sources.

Bahrain Telecommunications Co has become the first casualty of the 2G scam with the Manama-based company selling its entire stake in STel Pvt Ltd a week after the Indian Supreme Court scrapped 122 2G licences.

We are living in an Orwellian world where nothing means anything anymore at all" -- to borrow words from Anne Applebaum's article titled The Games Authoritarians Play.

The Bahraini government has been accused of increasing the use of torture of women activists in prison as it hardens its stand against pro-democracy protesters.