Bahraini authorities are targeting wounded anti-government protesters and sometimes denying them crucial medical care, Human Rights Watch said Wednesday.
The outspoken head of a Bahrain human rights group said Sunday that he was handcuffed, blindfolded and beaten when authorities detained him for about two hours.
The arrest in Bahrain of several prominent opposition figures has left the United States "deeply troubled," according to a statement Friday from the State Department.
CNN's Leone Lakhani goes inside a Bahrain hospital where doctors say the military has raided the complex.
As many of the world's industries struggle in the face of global economic hardship, the inaugural Abu Dhabi Yacht Show went ahead earlier this month.
The Saudi Arabian Stock Exchange dipped slightly Sunday, a day after King Abdullah announced he would invest billions of Saudi riyals into the market.
CNN's Atika Shubert reports that OPEC is cutting back oil production in hopes to raise prices.
The Saudi Arabian Stock Exchange began the week Saturday with its largest decline in four years, a reaction to the world's tumbling markets and oil prices, an economist said.
As everyone keeps a close eye on the shifting state of the global money markets, inflation is an issue that continues to rear its head -- and the Middle East is a region that is seeing more than its fair share of it.
The second cut in U.S. interest rates in as many weeks is putting further pressure on the members of the Gulf Cooperation Council to reconsider their currencies' peg with the dollar; and none more so than Qatar.
It was back in December at a summit in Qatar that members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) decided to weather falling interest rates and soaring inflation and retain the dollar-peg.
This week, Marketplace Middle East goes to Doha, Qatar for the 28th GCC Annual Summit.
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