US, region pivots to confront terrorist threat in Syria Author: Week in Review Posted December 8, 2013 MANAMA, Bahrain — Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, speaking at the Manama Dialogue Regional Security Summit convened by the International Institute for Strategic Studies, warned of an “Islamic emirate” emerging in Syria. Just this past week, the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, an al-Qaeda affiliated group, attacked the ethnically mixed Read more [...]

A Bahraini court on Sunday sentenced 12 Shiites, including three minors, to prison terms of up to five years for attacking a police patrol with Molotov cocktails, a judicial source said. The nine adults were sentenced to five years in jail each while the three minors were handed down three-year sentences for the April 2012 attack in a Shiite suburb of Manama. The jail terms are the latest to be handed down to Shiites accused of violence in the Sunni-ruled Gulf monarchy. A Shiite-led uprising Read more [...]

Tunis- Dec8 (BNA)The Information Affairs Authority (IAA) has swooped the first Arab prize for best environmental programme. The Arab States Broadcasting Union (ASBU) awarded the prize to "Al-Areen Wildlife Park and Reserve" programme, on the sidelines of the 90th ASBU executive board meeting and 33rd annual meeting. News Director Abdulla Khalid received the award in a prize-distribution ceremony hosted at the ASBU Headquarters Read more [...]

Manama, Dec. 8 (BNA)-- Foreign Minister Shaikh Khalid bin Ahmed bin Mohammed Al Khalifa participated this evening, alongside his Indian counterpart Salman Khurshid, in a ceremony for laying the foundation stone of the Indian Embassy in Bahrain. The Indian Minister for External Affairs welcomed in his speech the close and historic partnership between India and Bahrain, expressing his appreciation and gratitude to the Bahraini government Read more [...]