Bahrain

The UAE report revealed critical weaknesses in Saudi Arabia’s ability to thwart the retaliatory attacks, London-based Middle East Eye (MEE) news outlet reported.  The damning report, issued originally in May, had a limited publication intended for top Emirati leadership by the Emirates Policy Center (EPC), a think tank close to the Emirati government and its security services. “Air defenses such…

In an announcement on Monday, the Bahraini authorities confirmed that they are joining forces with the United States. According to the official Bahrain News Agency, King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa “confirmed the Kingdom of Bahrain’s participation in the joint effort to preserve the safety of international maritime navigation and secure international corridors for trade and energy in the region.”…

Over 400 inmates started an open-ended hunger strike on Sunday morning, joining 196 others who had began refusing food a short while earlier on Friday. They are also voicing solidarity with 15 political prisoners who are being held incommunicado at Jaw prison and who initiated the hunger strike campaign on Thursday. Bahraini detainees complain about harassment during family visits, saying…

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi on Thursday condemned the accusations that Bahrain has leveled against Iran in its latest statements as well as the regime’s hosting of “suspicious and provocative meetings.” On July 31, Bahrain — where the US Fifth Fleet is based — hosted a conference on “maritime security” in the Persian Gulf, after a number of mysterious attacks in…

Gargash tweeted on Friday that the redeployment is “the outcome of extensive dialogue” within Saudi Arabia, which has been waging a war on Yemen since March 2015. Saudi Arabia and the UAE are determined to avoid confrontation with Iran, he said, adding the two Arab allies had agreed on a strategy for the next phase in Yemen. The remarks came less than a month…

“Cruelty and tyranny won’t last and the determination and the willpower of justice-seeking nations will eventually prevail,” the Leader’s official Arabic-language Twitter account quoted him as saying on Wednesday. The tweet came after Manama continued its years-long brutal crackdown on anti-regime protests by ordering the execution of Ahmed Isa al-Malali, 24, and Ali Mohamed Hakeem al-Arab, 25, on Saturday on…

Protesters chanted slogans against the ruling Al Khalifa regime as they took to the streets in several villages and neighborhoods on the outskirts of the capital Manama on Monday night. According to Reuters, police fired tear gas to disperse the demonstrators in Bilad al-Qadeem neighborhood. Meanwhile, pictures posted on social media accounts of Bahrini activists showed mass demonstrations in the…

In a statement released on Sunday, Ansarullah’s politburo lashed out at “the crimes committed by the criminal regime in Bahrain, the latest of which was the execution of two activists Ahmad al-Malali and Ali al-Arab.” The revolutionary movement also voiced “sincere solidarity with the oppressed people of Bahrain,” and support to their “legitimate and rightful” demands. The statement meanwhile, affirmed…

Ahmad al-Mullali, 24, and Ali Hakim al-Arab, 25, were executed at Jaw prison, south of the Bahraini capital Manama, on Friday after private meetings with their families. Al-Malali and al-Arab were sentenced to death last year in a mass trial along with another 56 men who were convicted and given jail terms on “terrorism crimes”. The Public prosecutor’s office announced the men were…

The spokesman of Hamas resistance movement, Sami Abu Zuhri, denounced the meeting between the Bahraini foreign minister Khaled bin Hamad Al Khalifa and his Israeli counterpart Yisrael Katz, stressing that it reflects the involvement of some Arab regimes in Zionism. Abu Zuhri stressed that such meetings are a betrayal of Al-Quds and Palestine, but will fail to deform the Umma’s…