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Khalifa bin Ali al Khalifa

Director of the National Security Department, Bahrain’s foreign intelligence and [...]

Bahrain Chief Button-Holes Blair

The king of Bahrain told Tony Blair this week that Washington was exaggerating the terrorist threat in his country.

Rashid al Zayani

In the wake of Shi'ite riots in Bahrain in late [...]

Manama - Top-Line Lawyers For Top Accord ?

Bahrain has called on the Holland & Knight law firm [...]

Islamic Investment on London Stock Exchange

For the first time, an Arab bank is offering an [...]

The Gulf's Money Returns to the Gulf

Forty five institutional and private Arab investors announced on Oct. 13 they were setting up the International Investment Bank (IIB), [...]

Said Chehabi

The amnesty granted by Bahrain’s emir, Hamad Ben Issa Al Khalifa, will allow a number of long-standing Shi’ite opponents to [...]

FRESH CRACKDOWN ON DISSENT

The four main Bahrain opposition parties, all of whose leaders are in jail or in exile between Beirut, London and [...]

POST-HENDERSON ERA HAS BEGUN

Last month's dismissal of Ian Henderson, the Briton who had ruled over Bahrain's security for 32 years, came on the [...]

DRUMMING UP MILITARY ASSISTANCE

The crown prince of Bahrain and the commander-in-chief of its defense forces, sheikh Hamad ben Issa al-Khalifa, has just wound [...]

8,000-MAN NATIONAL GUARD

A decree published on Jan. 7 that created a National Guard in Bahrain along Saudi Arabian lines was the fruit [...]

MI6 HELPS TO ROLL UP NETWORK

The Bahrain government has once against complained to the Lebanese authorities about the fact that Bahraini Shi'ite opponents of the [...]

RIFT IN BAHRAIN RULING CIRCLES

The ruling Khalifa family of Sunnis in Bahrain is increasingly torn by disagreement over how to cope with a step-up [...]

REASON BEHIND BAHRAIN UNREST

Two opposition movements which had their headquarters in Beirut until only recently are chiefly responsible for riots that rocked the [...]

ABDULAMIR AL-JAMRI

Arrested in early April on orders from interior minister Mohamed ben-Khalifa al-Khalifa when his village, Bani Jamra, was surrounded by [...]

SECURITY REVAMP

Violent riots that swept Bahrain in December in the predominantly Shi'ite suburbs of Manama -- Barbar, Abu Sibaa, Diraz and [...]

SECOND MIDDLE EAST DEFENCE SHOW

Arabian Exhibition Management in Bahrain (fax 973 242381) is organizing [...]

Hilal Gulf Exhibitions in Bahrain (fax 973 293 400) is [...]

Arabian Exhibition Management WLL in Bahrain (fax 973 242 381) [...]