A prominent Bahraini activist on Monday lost his final appeal against a five-year jail term for writing tweets deemed “offensive” to the Bahraini regime. The Gulf regime’s supreme court, whose verdicts are final, upheld the jail term against Nabeel Rajab, his second imprisonment verdict this year, for criticizing the monarchy ...
Bahrain on Friday announced it will resume operations at its embassy in Syria, reflecting new efforts by Gulf Arab states to improve relations with President Bashar Assad as the war winds down. A day earlier, the United Arab Emirates reopened its embassy in Damascus with a flag-raising ceremony before journalists ...