Slamming the revocation of the citizenship of prominent Shia cleric Sheikh Abdullah al-Daqaq’s wife and her subsequent deportation from the tiny Persian Gulf kingdom, a Bahraini rights group stressed that the measure indicates that the Manama regime’s worsening rights record is damaging.

Two teenage Palestinians injured in Al-Aqsa Mosque clashes have succumbed to their wounds as the new round of tensions between Israeli forces and Palestinian protesters heats up.