Videos circulating on social media that show security forces brutally assaulting and beating a group of girls at an orphanage in Saudi Arabia's southwestern Asir province have sent ripples of anger and outrage across the world

A Saudi Arabian court has sentenced a woman to 45 years in prison for her social media posts, a rights group says, marking the second such case in weeks.

Saudi forces have reportedly arrested a number of people in Saudi Arabia’s oil-rich and Shia-populated Eastern Province.

Pakistani authorities close all routes leading to the capital ahead of a planned opposition protest in Islamabad.

A Bahraini opposition group has called for disbanding the US Navy base in the Persian Gulf kingdom, and the complete withdrawal of military forces from the site.

The UN human rights chief has decried the recent mass execution of 81 people in a single day in Saudi Arabia.

Human rights groups lambaste the United Kingdom for endangering six Bahraini boys, who are arbitrarily detained at an orphanage in the Persian Gulf kingdom.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has defended his use of emergency powers to end weeks-long protests and argued that the measures need to remain in force for now.

A court in Saudi Arabia sentences Shia cleric Sheikh Abdul Latif al-Nasser to 8 years in prison.

Human rights organizations warn of the deteriorating health condition of imprisoned Saudi political dissident Dr. Saud Mukhtar al-Hashimi.