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SHAFAQNA (Shia International News Association) -- The video, which was released by Bahrain’s opposition activists, shows a protester being run over by a vehicle of the militiamen. The vehicle suddenly speeds up and hits the young man, dragging him along.  The incident occurred in a street in the village of Dar Kulaib, about 30 kilometers (18 miles) southwest of the capital city of Manama, where protesters were trying to block a road with burning tires.  There was another amateur video going…

SHAFAQNA (Shia International News Association) -- Authorities in Bahrain say that they have opened investigations into the deaths of a policeman and a protester during widespread clashes marking the second anniversary of the anti-government uprising in the Gulf kingdom. The policeman was fatally wounded from a "projectile" after attacks from demonstrators in the village of al-Sahla, Major-General Tariq al-Hassan, an interior ministry spokeperson, said on Friday. An earlier statement blamed his death late on Thursday on a "domestic terror act".…

All Bahrain Air flights were canceled after yesterday’s announcement of the shutdown. The carrier which was a rival to state-owned Gulf Air, also blaming the minister of transportation, Kamal Ahmad, for considerably restricting its routes and flights while demanding debt payment. SHAFAQNA (Shia International News Association) – Bahrain Air grounded all flights on Wednesday after announcing plans to shut down operations and sell its assets amid growing unrest in the Persian Gulf country. The other state owned Gulf Air is…

Shafaqna (Shia International News Association)- Bahraini police have used tear gas and stun grenades to disperse hundreds of protesters in Manama, as they marked the second anniversary of the Shiite-led uprising against the Sunni regime. Demonstrators tried to march to Pearl Square, the site they occupied two years ago when the protest against the royal family – rulers for over 40 years – first began. "Square of martyrdom, we all still have the will! Down with the corrupt government!" chanted protesters carrying Bahraini…

SHAFAQNA (Shia International News Association) -- Bahrain's government and opposition groups have held the first round of talks aimed at solving the country's two-year-old political crisis. The talks on Sunday, the first in Bahrain in more than 18 months, involved dozens of representatives from the country's main political groups. Al-Wefaq, the largest opposition group, agreed to take part, as did several other opposition parties. Isa AbdulRahman, the official spokesperson for the National Dialogue, told Al Jazeera that the first day…

SHAFAQNA (Shia International News Association) –Bahrain's government and opposition groups have held the first round of talks aimed at solving the country's two-year-old political crisis. The talks on Sunday, the first in Bahrain in more than 18 months, involved dozens of representatives from the country's main political groups. Al-Wefaq, the largest opposition group, agreed to take part, as did several other opposition parties. Isa AbdulRahman, the official spokesperson for the National Dialogue, told Al Jazeera that the first day of…

SHAFAQNA (Shia International News Association) -- After nearly two years of nonstop unrest, opposing factions in Bahrain are set to open talks to ease an Arab Spring conflict that has run longer than Syria's rebellion and is playing out on the doorstep of the U.S. military's main naval base in the Persian Gulf. But mistrust runs so deep on all sides that even the prelude to Sunday's planned start of negotiations has been a study in the kingdom's divisions and suspicions,…

SHAFAQNA (Shia International News Association) –A group of Bahraini activists have protested in front of British Prime Minister David Cameron’s office condemning the double standard policies of Britain and other western countries toward human rights abuses of the Al-Khalifa regime in the Arab country. The protesters criticized the silence of western countries, including Britain, over the Bahraini regime’s human rights abuses, calling on the west to end its support for the dictatorship.  The demonstrators who were carrying pictures of those…

SHAFAQNA (Shia International News Association) – Bahrain national democratic opposition parties stressed that the solution to exit the crisis starts with the establishment of a transitional government which represents the different national factions in the Bahraini society, and a stop to the ongoing security crackdowns and media campaigns against dissidents. The opposition parties stated in their final communiqué of today's mass protest that a national transitional government shall help go through the transitional phase to reach an end to the…

SHAFAQNA (Shia International News Association) – Talks aimed at resolving political unrest in the Gulf island kingdom of Bahrain look set to get off to an uncertain start. The six opposition societies have agreed to meet with other groups on Sunday in a bid to end nearly two years of unrest. The country's justice minister has said he will serve as a moderator and government representative. But the main opposition party al-Wefaq has already voiced grave doubts about a positive outcome.…