
Bahraini authorities acknowledged on Thursday spying charges against prominent opposition figure, Sheikh Ali Salman, were false. A court in the Gulf state acquitted the Secretary General of Al-Wefaq opposition group of all charges in his trial for alleged spying for regional rival Qatar, activists said. “Sheikh Ali Salman was found ...

Ahead of an extraordinary official visit by an Israeli delegation to Bahrain later this month, an official from the Kingdom said the Gulf state will be the first to establish diplomatic relations with the Zionist entity. The rapprochement between the Gulf country and the Zionist regime “will not contradict the ...