King Hamad has ordered that the citizenship of 551 Bahrainis revoked by courts be restored, official media said Sunday, days after a senior UN official expressed concern about the punishment. The king, who can reverse court decisions, requested that the competent authorities take into...

 Aircraft from the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen on Saturday attacked a camp containing drones near Yemen’s presidential palace in the Houthi-controlled capital, Saudi state TV reported. The Saudi-led coalition backs the government of Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, which was ousted from...

United Nations human rights chief Michelle Bachelet said on Thursday she was concerned that a Bahrain mass trial that revoked the nationality of 138 people this week had not met international fair trial standards. A court in Western-allied Bahrain sentenced 139 people to jail on terrorism...

A court in Western-allied Bahrain sentenced 139 people to jail on terrorism charges on Tuesday and revoked the citizenship of all but one of them, the public prosecutor said, in the latest mass trial in the Gulf Arab state. Bahrain, which hosts the U.S. Navy’s Fifth Fleet, has prosecuted...