DUBAI (AFP) - Hundreds of Saudi Shiites rallied late on Thursday in the east of the kingdom to show solidarity with their fellow Shiites at the centre of protests in Bahrain, witnesses said.
"Free Bahrain! Peninsula Shield out!" chanted the demonstrators, taking up the slogans of Bahraini Shiite pro-democracy demonstrators.
The witnesses said Saudi security forces fired tear gas at demon [...]
MANAMA (AFP) - The United Nations warned on Thursday of "shocking and illegal" abuses in Bahrain where the US-backed Sunni Muslim rulers are waging a bloody crackdown on Shiite-led protesters.
The violence in the strategic Gulf kingdom has alarmed Washington and sparked furious condemnation from Iran, Shiite leaders in Iraq and the Hezbollah militia in Lebanon.
Dissidents were rounded up [...]
TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran said on Wednesday that Bahrain had made a "strategic mistake" in asking Gulf troops to help quell pro-democracy protests, as President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad blamed Washington for the move.
Defence Minister Ahmad Vahidi told the official IRNA news agency the Sunni Muslim-ruled but Shiite-majority Gulf kingdom had committed a "strategic and political" blunder that would co [...]
MANAMA (AFP) - The United Nations warned on Thursday of "shocking and illegal" abuses in Bahrain after a bloody crackdown on Shiite-led protesters which has alarmed the United States and infuriated the Shiite world.
Political dissidents were rounded up at gunpoint in midnight raids and police armed with shot-guns stood outside Manama's main hospital, amid reports the authorities were beating [...]
BAGHDAD (AFP) - From Iran to Saudi Arabia and through the Iraqi city of Najaf, Shiites in the Middle East rallied Wednesday behind Shiite protesters in Bahrain against a violent crackdown by the ruling Sunni dynasty.
In Shiite-majority Iraq, a leading authority of the sect called for an immediate halt to the deadly crackdown in Bahrain.
"We condemn this irresponsible act," Basheer al-Naj [...]
TEHRAN (AFP) - Military intervention in Bahrain by Gulf troops to help quell pro-democracy protests is "foul and doomed," Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Wednesday, the IRNA news agency reported.
"This expedition is a very foul and doomed experience and regional nations will hold the American government responsible for this," Ahmadinejad told reporters after a cabinet meetin [...]
MANAMA (AFP) - Bahrain's opposition accused the kingdom's Sunni authorities of killing three protesters in a violent raid Wednesday on a peaceful pro-democracy camp that sparked Shiite outrage across the region.
Hundreds of riot police backed by tanks and helicopters fired shotguns and tear gas canisters at demonstrators in Pearl Square in the early morning, clearing the symbolic heart of [...]
MANAMA (AFP) - At least 200 people were shot and wounded on Tuesday in a Shiite village south of the Bahraini capital, a medic said, and two people killed elsewhere, as the king imposed a state of emergency after bringing in foreign troops to help quell anti-regime protests.
As violence escalated, close ally the United States warned that there was "no military solution" to political uphea [...]
MANAMA (AFP) - Bahrain's King Hamad on Tuesday proclaimed a three-month state of emergency, a day after a Saudi-led military force entered the tiny island nation to help put down Shiite-led protests.
"Due to the ongoing circumstances in Bahrain ... King Hamad has announced a state of national emergency as of Tuesday for three months," state television said.
The king had instructed the co [...]
RIYADH (AFP) - Kuwait Zain telecom has accepted a joint offer by Saudi Kingdom Holding and Bahrain's Batelco to sell its 25-percent stake in Zain Saudi Arabia, a statement said on Monday.
Kingdom Holding said in a statement it had received a "preliminary acceptance of the non-binding offer and a preliminary expression from the Board of Directors of Zain Kuwait."
"The consortium's offer i [...]
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