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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, pressing Arab nations for financial and political support of Iraq, said Monday that Baghdad’s neighbors had taken a “good step forward” by pledging to do more to include the country in regional affairs.
A U.S. Navy ship rescued a small boat carrying about 70 people, some suffering from severe dehydration, in the Gulf of Aden between Yemen and Somalia, the military said Monday.
Bahrain’s state-run news agency reports that the tiny Gulf state is getting ready to open an embassy in Baghdad.
The only Jewish woman lawmaker in Bahrain is a candidate to become this Persian Gulf kingdom’s ambassador to Washington.
Citing an overall improvement in the level of violence in Iraq, the United States was encouraging Iraq’s Arab neighbors to back statements of support for Baghdad with money and political capital.
A naval commander told President Bush on Sunday that he is taking the recent confrontation between Iranian and U.S. Navy forces in the Persian Gulf “deadly seriously.”
A sailor from USS Hopper went overboard during U.S. Navy operations in the Arabian Sea, the U.S. military said Friday.
More than a dozen people detained during recent Shiite protests were charged Thursday with attempted murder, illegal assembly and rioting, a defense lawyer and a local rights group said.
Bahraini security forces stormed the houses of the country’s most outspoken Shiite opposition group at dawn Friday, arresting at least seven of its members, the group said.
The Iraqi government on Sunday said the U.S. needed to take bolder steps to interact directly with Iran in order to improve security across the Middle East.
In the Mid East there’s a great rivalry emerging; a desire amongst the various nations to put themselves on to the architectural maps. Add to this list the Kingdom of Bahrain, which is envisaging the world’s tallest arch! The Muharraq Concept...
Like the universal law regarding nationality, Bahraini citizenship too allows father’s nationality to pass on to their children, effectively denying native women married to foreigners this right. The women activists however, are not in favor of this law...
In a conference at Manama, 17 Arab states participated. Shaikha Sabeeka bint Ibrahim Al Khalifa, the first lady of Bahrain and the chairperson of the Arab Women’s Organization said that if Arab countries want ‘sustainable’ development then it would have...
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U.S. Vice Adm. William Gortney, left, U.S. Ambassador to Bahrain Joseph Adam Ereli, center, and U.S. Vice Adm. Kevin Cosgriff, right, cut a cake together Saturday, July 5. 2008, at the U.S. Navy base in Manama, Bahrain during a change of command...
