The United States is set to evacuate thousands of vulnerable Afghan interpreters before the U.S. military completes its withdrawal from Afghanistan so they can wrap up their visa applications from safety, U.S. officials said on Thursday.

Foreign Minister Abdullatif bin Rashid Al-Zayani met on Sunday (June 27, 2021) with his Israeli counterpart Yair Lapid, on the sidelines of the meeting of the Global Coalition to Defeat Daesh in Italy.

Former Bahraini ambassador to Washington Hoda Al-Nonoo said that plans are underway to bring a Touro delegation to visit Bahrain.

The Saudi authorities released on Sunday (June 27, 2021) two prominent human rights activists Samar Badawi and Nassima Al-Sadah after being held in detention for nearly three years within a vast campaign that included dozens of activists in the kingdom. The authorities also released eulogy reciter Mohammad Bou Jbara.

Fitch Ratings has affirmed Bahrain Mumtalakat Holding Company's (Mumtalakat) Long-Term Issuer Default Rating (IDR) and senior unsecured rating at 'B+'. The Outlook is Stable.

Bahrain is ready to work on Qatar's ambition to gain control of its own airspace, a government spokesperson said, in a sign of a rapprochement between the two estranged states.

A prisoner of conscience's new audio recording revealed that the Bahraini Public Prosecution has started accusing inmates of deliberately spreading the Coronavirus inside prison

The Bahraini opposition satellite channel, Lualua TV, said that the US blocking of its website is a "confiscation of press freedom, trial of opinion, and assassination of the free word and a victory for unjust and tyrannical regimes over oppressed and violated peoples."

Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society said that the crisis Bahrain witnessed in 2011 after the eruption of the popular movement and similar experiences that have taken place previously had a specific aim which is reaching a major political project by building a just and democratic country where people are the source of all powers.

The Israeli press reported that Foreign Minister Yair Lapid is planning to travel to the United Arab Emirates next week for a two-day visit. It will be his first foreign trip since taking up his post, and the first visit ever of an Israeli minister to the country, according to the Al-Monitor website.

The United States of America seized the website domain of the Bahraini opposition satellite channel, Lualua TV, as part of a widespread campaign that targeted 33 websites of Arab and Islamic news channels.

In the 1990s, during the Al-Karama (dignity) uprising, sentences against political prisoners were issued by the committee in Al-Qalaa or by the state security apparatus. They weren't sentences in a judicial or legal sense. The sentences or decisions, or call it what you will, were secretly written in the prisoners' files.

The leader of the Haq Movement, Hassan Mushaima, said in a phone call that he is not feeling better, commenting on his health condition.

"Bahrain sent two official invitations to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the State of Qatar, Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani, to send a Qatari delegation and hold bilateral talks between the two countries in the Kingdom of Bahrain to settle the issues between the two sides.

A UN expert called on Bahrain to immediately release three human rights defenders suffering long term detention as a result of their legitimate promotion and protection of human rights in the country.

Bahrain on Sunday rejected a UN report calling for the release of two men facing the death penalty, which cited claims their murder convictions were based on confessions extracted by torture.

Commenting on the establishment of an international committee to investigate human rights crime in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Bahrain said that it is committed to the principles of good neighborliness.

Bahrain's Shiite spiritual leader Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim expressed his thanks and appreciation for the Bahraini people's stance, who launched a media campaign against welcoming any commercial or tourist delegations from the Israeli occupation.

After almost one month of absence, the Bahraini Crown Prince presided over the Cabinet session on Monday (June 14, 2021).

Emirati human rights defender Alaa Al-Siddiq died on Saturday (June 19, 2021) in London.