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Remembering the Bahraini Uprising Bahraini anti-government protesters place concrete roadblocks on the highway leading to Pearl Square in Manama on 14 March 2011. [JAMES LAWLER DUGGAN/AFP via Getty Images] February 14, 2021 at 11:00 am Known as the "Forgotten Uprising", the largely peaceful pro-democracy protests erupted across the tiny island Kingdom of Bahrain ten years ago, only to be faced with a brutal crackdown by the police and finally be suppressed weeks later by the military intervention of neighbouring Saudi Arabia. In its wake, the crackdown left 122 Bahrainis dead and thousand...

Biden needs to understand that the world has changed: countries like UAE & Israel lead the MENA. Israel, Bahrain and UAE have stressed the concern they all share over Tehran’s nuclear program, ballistic missiles, and activities across the Middle East. As well as this, a joint regional position on these issues will exert greater influence on the United States. However, the question remains, how much of that will president Joe Biden listen to? With the Palestinian authority calling for an election, and president Joe Biden’s indication of his desire to re-join the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Pl...

AlUla summit is a healing moment of reunification Dr. Hamdan Al-Shehri Short Url Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman speaks during the GCC Summit in AlUla. (SPA) The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Summit in AlUla this week will surely be remembered as the summit of reunification. It will be recognized as the moment when the countries of the GCC finally turned the page on a crisis in the region that had gone on for three years. The supreme interest of the peoples of the council’s six member nations has prevailed and the process of cooperation has been relaunched, paving the way for a new future...

Middle East News: RIYADH: The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), set to meet Tuesday in Saudi Arabia amid a prolonged crisis, is a group of conservative Sunni monarchies s.

Tuesday, 29 December, 2020 - 12:00 The commander of the Saudi Royal Navy floats the first corvette from the Sarawat project in 2019(SPA) Riyadh - Saleh al-Zeid Need for more international cooperation and coordination to deter threats facing the safety of waterways in the Arab region is increasing, especially for countries bordering exposed maritime corridors. Safeguarding maritime navigation is geopolitically vital for the global economy. Saudi Arabia, for example, oversees two important maritime routes in the Arabian Gulf ...