MANAMA: Bahraini Shias have marked the one-year anniversary of their uprising against the country's Sunni rulers as security forces fanned out across the island nation in unprecedented numbers and police fired tear gas at protesters to pre-empt (...)
BAGHDAD: Iraq's Shia-led government cracked down harshly on dissent during the past year of Arab Spring uprisings, turning the country into a "budding police state" as autocratic regimes crumbled elsewhere in the region, an international rights (...)
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — A state security court in the United Arab Emirates on Sunday sentenced five activists who have campaigned for political freedoms in the oil-rich Gulf federation to prison terms of up to three years.
The UAE has (...)
DUBAI: A coalition of international human rights organizations on Thursday accused the United Arab Emirates of violating international legal standards by prosecuting five jailed activists who have campaigned for political reforms in the oil-rich (...)
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — Five activists on trial in the United Arab Emirates returned to court Monday two days after the oil-rich Gulf nation held elections for an advisory council.
The activists, including a blogger and a prominent (...)
DUBAI: International rights groups on Sunday called on the United Arab Emirates to release from custody five political activists who have campaigned for democratic reforms in the oil-rich Gulf country.
The UAE has not faced street protests (...)
CAIRO (AP) — Among the protest banners in Cairo's Tahrir Square was a hand-drawn map of the Arab Spring with black target symbols covering each country hit by anti-government uprisings since the leaders of Tunisia and Egypt were ousted earlier this (...)
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia doesn't have a seat at Bahrain's crisis talks, but it carries a critical voice in everything from the tone of debate to the eventual offers on the table.
After four months of Shiite-led protests and (...)
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) ? Just days before Bahrain's Sunni rulers hope to open talks with the Shiite opposition they crushed, the country's most powerful pro-reform bloc is asking supporters a pivotal question: Whether to join or snub the (...)
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP): Syrian officials say their government has sent an Iranian-born Al-Jazeera correspondent, who also has American and Canadian citizenship, to Tehran following her detention last month in Damascus.
Al-Jazeera said (...)
DUBAI: A military court in Bahrain sentenced four Shiite protesters to death after convicting them on Thursday of killing two policemen during anti-government demonstrations last month, state media said.
Three other Shiite activists, who were (...)
AL KHARJIYA, Bahrain: It was just after midnight when armed men in military uniforms came to the hospital bed of Ali Mansour Abdel-Karim Nasser, who was injured by pellets fired during a clash with riot police. He said what came next was worse: he (...)