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British Foreign Minister Boris Johnson (Photo by AFP)The UK “is back” in the Persian Gulf region and will remain committed to the security of its Arab allies there in the foreseeable future, says British Foreign Minister Boris Johnson.Speaking at...

This file photo shows a view of the Syrian Foreign Ministry building in the capital Damascus.Syria’s Foreign Ministry has criticized the Persian Gulf littoral states over their inability to take independent decisions, heavy reliance on foreign...

Bahrainis have rallied to voice their anger at a visit by British Prime Minister Theresa May to the tiny Persian Gulf kingdom which has been cracking down on pro-democracy protests for years.The demonstrators took to the streets in the isla...

A picture taken on October 13, 2016 shows a general view of the meeting between the foreign ministers of the (P)GCC in the Saudi capital Riyadh. (Photo by AFP)Amnesty International has warned that the human rights records of Persian Gulf Arab states...

The picture shows a screenshot of Qatar's most popular English-language news website Doha News on December 4, 2016.Qatar’s leading independent English-language daily news website has announced that it is going to scale back operations less than a w...

This November 12, 2016 photo shows Saudi King Salman. (Photo by AFP)Saudi Arabia's King Salman has begun a tour of Arab monarchies of the Persian Gulf region, arriving in the United Arab Emirates as his first stop.The tour, which started on Saturday,...

Doha News Publisher Omar ChatriwalaAs many are aware, Doha News became inaccessible to most online users in Qatar as of yesterday, Nov. 30.Our URL – dohanews.co – was apparently blocked by both of Qatar’s internet service pr...

This photo shows a Qatari man surfing the Internet.A popular news website has become inaccessible in Qatar, with reports suggesting that authorities deliberately blocked it over articles it published earlier in the year.The management team of Doha Ne...

Now more than a thousand years in the vastness of Central Asia was born one of the most impressive geniuses in human history. Considered as the greatest scientist of all Muslim civilizations, Avicenna shone unrivaled in all areas in which he wor...

The story of King Leonidas and the Spartan 300 warriors who accompanied him to the Gates of Fire (that is, in fact, Thermopylae) has fascinated generations of people from all over the world. It's a story told uninterrupted for over 2,000 years, about...

A file picture taken on November 2, 2014, shows a Bahraini human rights activist Nabeel Rajab looking on at his home in the village of Bani Jamrah, West of Manama. (Photos by AFP)Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on countries who “support pe...

Everyone who knows anything about writing or reading novels knows that you have to start with a flawed character. Well, everyone but me. I don’t believe in flawed characters, just characters that come alive. Tell me honestly, except for a few physi...

Iran and Pakistan agree to open banks accounts in their respective central banks for trade transactions in local currencies.Iran and Pakistan have signed an agreement to re-establish banking relationship and carry out trade transactions in local curr...

This file photo shows a general view of Iran’s parliament in session.The majority of Iranian lawmakers have expressed their support for the struggle of the Bahraini people against oppressive moves taken by the Al Khalifah regime.In a Tuesday s...

Nedhal al-Salman, the women and children rights officer at the Bahrain Center for Human RightsBahraini authorities have prevented a senior human rights activist from traveling to Switzerland to attend a United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHCR) mee...

Bahraini police dispersing protesters at an unauthorized demonstration by the February 14 Youth Coalition, Manama, January 2013. (AFP photo)The UK police have come under heavy fire for refusing to shed more light on their ties with the Bahraini regim...

UK Navy destroyer HMS Daring (file photo)Royal Navy destroyer HMS Daring is slated to join a fleet of US warships stationed in the Persian Gulf, UK Defense Secretary Michael Fallon says.The Type 45 destroyer will arrive in the region on Friday and ta...

Representatives of Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah movement and the General People's Congress (GPC) party of the former president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, attend a ceremony in Sana'a on August 6, 2016, during which a joint council was appointed to rule the c...

Apple has issued a security update after Israeli malware found to be used to spy on Emirati activists’ iPhones. (Getty Images)The United Arab Emirates has been accused of purchasing Israeli malware capable of turning Apple’s iPhones into remote s...

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