India will get two additional cargoes of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) from United Arab Emirate's Abu Dhabi National Oil Co (ADNOC) to make up for a shortfall from Saudi Arabia, two government officials said.

Saudi Arabia has waived fees on expatriate workers employed in the industrial sector, one of the main economic segments eyed for development, for five years, a cabinet statement said on Tuesday.

Air strikes blamed on the Saudi-led coalition killed at least 16 people in Yemen's disputed province of al-Dhalea on Tuesday, two residents and the Houthi-run al-Masirah TV said.

French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday he believed that the conditions for the leaders of the United States and Iran to meet were now in place, but the ball was now in their court to make it happen.

Bahrain Press Association criticized the crackdown practiced by the Bahraini authorities during the month of Muharram and their tight restrictions on freedom of expression in the country.

The Fourth Minor Criminal Court started on Monday (September 23, 2019) the trial of Dr. Sharifa Siwar in case of circulated video about promoting drugs inside Hamad Town Intermediate Girls School.

The First High Appeals Criminal Court commuted the sentence of a Bahraini youth from life imprisonment to 15 years in prison in a political case.

King Hamad returned to Bahrain after spending some hours in Jeddah during which he met his Saudi counterpart King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud.

Kuwait's deputy foreign minister said on Monday that Kuwait shares Saudi Arabia's optimism to end a disagreement over the Saudi-Kuwaiti neutral zone "very soon," state news agency (KUNA) cited him as saying.

French President Emmanuel Macron said he would meet Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Monday and U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday as he seeks to defuse tensions between Washington and Tehran.

Transportation and Telecommunications Minister Kamal Ahmed announced the launching of a new air traffic control center.

Official figures showed that the number of Saudi investors in Bahrain has reached 14,614 as of September 22, 2019.

Two flights were diverted from Dubai International Airport on Sunday due to suspected drone activity, the hub's operator said, at least the second disruption of its kind there this year.

Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis will stop aiming missile and drone attacks at Saudi Arabia if a coalition targeting Yemen does the same, a Houthi official said on Friday, nearly a week after the Houthis claimed a strike on Saudi oil facilities.

The United States' warnings to its Gulf allies regarding its dealings with Huawei services will not affect the company's commercial relations with Gulf states, especially Bahrain, said Alaa El Shimy, Managing Director of Huawei Enterprise Business Group Middle East.

The number of Saudi visitors to Bahrain witnessed an increase of 2.8% during the first half of this year compared to the same period last year, said Bahrain Tourism and Exhibitions Authority Adviser, Ali Follad.

Hundreds protested in central Cairo and several other Egyptian cities late on Friday against President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, responding to an online call for a demonstration against government corruption, witnesses said.

Twitter suspended the account of former Saudi royal court adviser Saud al-Qahtani on Friday, nearly a year after he was sacked over his suspected role in the murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

A bus bombing killed at least 12 people and wounded several others on Friday near Iraq's holy city of Karbala, south of Baghdad, a statement from Iraqi security services said.

Local Al-Bilad newspaper said that the Civil Service Bureau confirmed the ban on return of voluntary retired employees to the government job on a temporary or partial contract.