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By Enes Canli JERUSALEM (AA): Israel placed early warning radar systems in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Bahrain to detect “missile threats” from Iran, according to local media on Friday. The radar systems worked just a few months ago when Iran tried to attack Israel with drones above Iraqi airspace, Israeli Channel 12 […]

13th Feb 2022

Bahrain confirms appointment of Israeli Navy officer

ISTANBUL , Turkey, (AA): Bahrain confirmed Saturday that an Israeli Navy officer will be stationed in the Gulf state. In a statement, the Bahraini Foreign Ministry said the appointment of the Israeli officer is related to an international coalition “to secure the freedom of navigation in the region.” On Friday, media reports said that an […]

30th Oct 2021

Saudi Arabia expels Lebanese envoy over Yemen war criticism

By Idris Okuduci BEIRUT (AA): Saudi Arabia on Friday recalled its ambassador to Lebanon for consultations and asked the Lebanese ambassador to leave the kingdom within 48 hours, the Saudi Press Agency reported. Saudi Arabia also banned all imports from Lebanon until further notice after Lebanese Information Minister George Kurdahi criticized the Saudi-led war […]

4th Dec 2020

Bahrain to label illegal settlement products as Israeli

JERUSALEM (AA): An Israeli journalist wrote Thursday on Twitter that Bahrain’s Industry, Commerce and Tourism Minister said his country “will NOT distinguish between Israeli products made within the 1967 lines and those from settlements.” Raphael Ahren, who works for the Times of Israel online news site quoted Zayed bin Rashid Al-Zayani who said Bahrain will […]

28th Jul 2019

Bahrain executes 2 men on “terrorism” charges despite pleas by rights groups

By Hussein Qabani MANAMA (AA):- Bahrain on Saturday executed two men by firing squad on terrorism-related charges, according to Bahraini officials. Human Rights groups condemned the trials saying they were not fair and confessions were extracted under torture. The pair were convicted of joining a terrorist group and plotting to commit several terrorist attacks […]

5th Jun 2017

Saudi Arabia: 4 Gulf countries sever diplomatic ties with Qatar

By Ramazan Turgut RIYAD, Saudi Arabia (AA, The Musilm News, Agencies): Egypt and the United Arab Emirates have joined Saudi Arabia and Bahrain in cutting ties with Qatar, adding fuel to a diplomatic dispute in the Gulf region. Saudi Arabia and Bahrain were the first to sever all diplomatic ties with Qatar, citing national […]

12th Nov 2016

Bahrain: Prince of Wales inaugurates ‘military base’ in Bahrain

By Ahmed al-Masry MANAMA (AA): Bahraini Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa and British counterpart Prince Charles this week inaugurated a new “facility” for Britain’s Royal Navy in Bahrain’s Salman Military Port, according to reports in Bahrain’s official news agency. Prince Charles has come under renewed criticism over human rights abuses in Bahrain […]

18th Jul 2016

Bahraini court dissolves main Shia Muslim group

By Ahmed al-Masri DOHA (AA): A Bahrain court on Sunday ordered the country’s main Shia Muslim group dissolved and its assets seized. The Ministry of Justice, Islamic Affairs and Endowments said the ruling to dissolve Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society was in light of the ministry’s request to dissolve the group, according to the official […]

21st Jun 2016

Bahrain revokes citizenship of prominent Shia Muslim scholar

By Ahmad al-Masri DOHA, Qatar (AA): Bahraini authorities on Monday revoked the citizenship of Ayatullah Sheikh Isa Ahmed Qassim, the country’s leading Shia Muslim scholar and the spiritual leader of Al-Wefaq, Bahrain’s largest opposition movement. Ayatullah Qassim’s ancestors are from Bahrain. According to Bahrain’s Interior Ministry, the step was taken because Qassim “damaged the […]

28th Oct 2015

Yemen: Saudi-led coalition airstrikes hit hospital

Human Rights Watch: The airstrikes by a Saudi-led coalition on a hospital in northern Yemen supported by Doctors Without Borders (Medecins Sans Frontiers, MSF) on October 26, 2015, was in apparent violation of the laws of war, Human Rights Watch said today. The attack with a half-dozen bombs destroyed Haydan Hospital, the only medical facility […]

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The Muslim News Awards for Excellence 2015 was held on March in London to acknowledge British Muslim and non-Muslim contributions to the society.

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