Pearl Square

• Bahrain detains 6 top opposition activists

  Authorities detained at least six prominent opposition activists on Thursday as the crackdown on dissent widened under martial law-style rule in the tiny Gulf nation, a rights group and the relatives of the arrested said.The Bahrain Youth Society for Human Rights said those taken into custody in the pre-dawn raids include Hassan Mushaima and Abdul ...

• Bahrain forces expel protesters; clashes kill 6

  Soldiers and riot police expelled hundreds of protesters from a landmark square in Bahrain's capital on Wednesday, using tear gas and armored vehicles to try to subdue the growing movement calling for an end to the 200-year-old monarchy. At least six people were killed as clashes flared across the kingdom, according to witnesses and officials.The u...

• Crackdown on protesters in Bahrain's Pearl Square; 5 dead

  Without warning, hundreds of heavily armed riot police officers rushed into Pearl Square Manama early on Thursday, firing shotguns, tear gas and concussion grenades at the thousands of demonstrators who were sleeping there as part of a widening protest against the nation's absolute monarchy.At least five people died, some of them reportedly killed ...

• Bahrain roiled after second protester is killed by police

  More than 10,000 people streamed into the capital's central Pearl Square on Tuesday in the largest political protest to hit this Persian Gulf kingdom in recent memory.Galvanized by the death of a demonstrator in clashes with the police on Monday, protesters waved flags and chanted "peaceful" under the square's towering monument as a police helicopt...