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A forensic expert displays glasses and other personal items of a victim as he inspects the destroyed funeral hall, two days after a Saudi-led airstrike targeted it, in Sanaa, Yemen, Monday, Oct. 10, 2016.

Press TV – December 11, 2016 UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson’s recent criticism of Saudi Arabia has worried British officials, with various government figures trying to gloss them over as Johnson’s own personal views. During a conference in Rome last week, Johnson blasted the Riyadh regime over its “proxy wars” in the Middle East and […]

Bahrain’s Foreign Minister Khalid Bin Ahmed Al Khalifa, pictured center left.
A British research institute has received £25 million in cash from the Bahraini government since 2011, leaked documents published in the Guardian show.
According to the report, the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), a global think tank specializing in researching political conflicts and armed movements, has secretly accepted £25 million in donations from the Manama government.

RT | December 7, 2016 The International Institute of Strategic Studies, an influential UK diplomacy and security think tank run by prominent military, political, and business figures, has received over $38mn in secret donations from Bahrain. Bahrain, a former British colony and oil-rich Arab country which accommodates the US Navy’s Fifth Fleet, had secretly donated […]

Britain is on course to ignore human rights in its foreign policy even more than in the recent past. And, if recent speeches by military leaders are anything to go by, it is even threatening to increasingly use its global military power to secure its financial and economic interests.
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By Alistair Sloan | MEMO | October 31, 2016 The army officer assigned to investigate alleged Saudi war crimes in Yemen played a key role in the 2011 crackdown on Arab Spring protesters in Bahrain, MEMO can reveal. In the wake of the start of the ongoing 2011 uprising, Bahrain’s military lawyer Colonel Mansour Al-Mansour […]

Britain’s then Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond boards a UK military ship docked in Manama, Bahrain, in November 2015. Press TV – October 29, 2016 The United Kingdom will open a massive permanent military base in Bahrain and deploy warships in the Persian Gulf, a new report has revealed. The military base, which is the first […]

RT | October 26, 2016 The Kingdom of Bahrain’s authoritarian ruler King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa visited British Prime Minister Theresa May at Downing Street on Wednesday, despite outcry from human rights and anti-arms trade groups. The Gulf regime is a close ally of both the UK and Saudi Arabia, as well as being […]

Bahrain Foreign Minister Sheikh Khalid bin Ahmed al-Khalifa Press TV – September 29, 2016 The Bahraini foreign minister’s surprising tribute to former Israeli president Shimon Peres who died Wednesday has triggered a wave of outcry in the region where he is known as a criminal. “Rest in Peace President Shimon Peres, a Man of War […]