MANAMA, Bahrain – Bahrain has detained four people for defaming the island's king with Twitter posts in a case that is likely to test the limits of expression in the violence-wracked Gulf nation.

Seeking to settle a quarrel dating to Arab tribal wars more than 100 years ago, the World Court has awarded Bahrain the largest of a string of disputed islands in the Persian Gulf, while giving Qatar ...

MANAMA, Bahrain — Thousands of anti-government demonstrators cut off Bahrain’s financial center and drove back police trying to push them from the capital’s central square — shaking the tiny island ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A daughter of a long-detained human rights activist in Bahrain tried to return to the island kingdom on Friday to press for her father's release but was turned away ...