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Kingdom on the Persian Gulf
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bahrain
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bahrain \Bahrain\ n. an island in the Persian Gulf. Syn: Bahrein. an island country in the Persian Gulf. Syn: Bahrein.
Usage examples of bahrain.
The six GCC states are Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, and Oman.
In particular, the Saudis now forbid us to fly strike missions from their air bases, insisting that they be launched instead from Kuwait, Bahrain, or carriers in the Gulf.
After the war, the United States maintained a small naval task force in the area based in Bahrain in support of the lingering British military presence.
Iraq did fight back, launching volleys of al-Hussein modified Scud missiles at Israel, Saudi Arabia, and Bahrain, but U.
Iraq launched 330 Scud-Bs and 203 al-Husseins against Iranian cities during the Iran-Iraq War and 88 al-Husseins at Israel, Saudi Arabia, and Bahrain during the Gulf War.
During the 1967 Arab-Israeli War, there was anti-American rioting in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia that caused considerable damage to many American businesses.
These have even led Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, lordan, and Yemen, among others, to establish parliaments where the people at least have a forum to air their grievances, if not yet a mechanism to govern themselves.
Sunni elites, and Tehran periodically reminds the world that it believes Bahrain should again be a part of Iran, as it was at the height of the Persian Empire.
Pakistan, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Georgia, Turkey, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman, and the Persian Gulf.
In fact to handle that many aircraft, we would probably need bases in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman, and Turkey.
Chances are we would retain a residual naval and air presence in Bahrain and Qatar, which are much less problematic because the people generally welcome U.
Kuwait, Jordan, Bahrain, and Qatar all have lively parliaments, which, though possessing little actual power, allow for popular participation in the process of government--and whose sentiments are not lightly dismissed by the true policy makers.
Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, and Yemen have instituted democratic changes that appear to be building momentum for greater reforms.
He believed that the proved oil-bearing country that runs down from Iraq through Kuwait, Dahran, Bahrain and Qattar would be found to continue, swinging south-east along the line of the Jebel mountains, through Buraimi and into the independent sheikhdom of Saraifa.
And every now and then a tanker passed them, decks almost awash, with oil from Kuwait, Bahrain and Dahran.