The U.S.–Iran conflict is reshaping daily life in Bahrain, a country positioned at the heart of Gulf geopolitics. As tensions ...

The ground-level rooms of the home now exhibit some of Bahrain’s oldest jewelry, including pearls from 2000 B.C. that were uncovered from archaeological digs over the past few decades (there is ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Prosecutors in the Arab Gulf nation of Bahrain on Thursday have handed down yearlong prison sentences to three people for debating Islamic theology in a series ...

The 38-page report, “You Can’t Call Bahrain A Democracy: Bahrain’s Political Isolation Laws,” documents the use of Bahrain’s 2018 political isolation laws to keep political opponents ...

The UK government appears to have violated its own guidelines by providing millions in funding to Bahrain while death sentences are handed down in the kingdom, a parliamentarian and human rights ...

Last year, rights groups claimed that death sentences in Bahrain had “dramatically increased” since the 2011 Arab Spring uprising. Death sentences in the small Gulf archipelago had risen by ...

Bahrain extended an “alternative sentencing” reform to include all prisoners, state news agency BNA reported on Thursday. Previously prisoners were required to have served half of their ...

Death sentences in Bahrain have risen by over 600 per cent since the start of the Arab Spring and the use of torture is “drastically escalating”, a new report has found, as family members of ...

More than any other country, the UK has worked to protect Bahrain's reputation overseas. In December 2014, the UK announced the establishment of a permanent naval base at Mina Salman port, which ...

A U.S. Navy chief who was part of a rash of sex crimes cases in Bahrain a few years ago is looking to have his sentence overturned on appeal. Chief Logistics Specialist Calvin Halfacre pleaded ...

Like the UAE, Bahrain also had covert ties with Israel stretching back years. In addition, Bahrain has a small but sustained Jewish community, with one of its members serving as the country’s ...