The final results of Iraq's elections confirmed Saturday a breakthrough for nationalist cleric Moqtada Sadr, who was in the lead, ahead of internationally favoured prime minister Haider al-Abadi.

A political bloc led by populist Shi’ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, a long-time adversary of the United States who also opposes Iranian influence in Iraq, has won the country’s parliamentary election, the electoral commission said on Saturday.

Transplant patients complained about running out of “Tacrolimus” medicine at Al-Salmaniya Medical Complex pharmacy since over 2 weeks.

The Bahrain Football Association expressed its desire to play against the Iraqi team, in a friendly match, in preparation for the Asian Cup to be held in the United Arab Emirates in 2019.

International organizations said that an Irish lawyer they sent to observe the trial hearing of human rights activist Nabeel Rajab issued a report in which she said that the judicial measures in his trial were unjust and that they violate Bahrain’s Constitution and international conventions on human rights.

The accused in a money-laundering case have been referred to the criminal court after the Public Prosecution completed its investigation, Abdullah Al-Thawadi, head of the prosecution in the capital, said. The trial is set for June 12.

The Second Minor Criminal Court acquitted unionist Ali Al-Binali of charges of fraud, by deceiving citizens and selling them gold bullion fringes for costs that are not commensurate with their market value, due to lack of evidence.

A report issued by Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), an international institute based in Sweden, showed that Bahrain’s spending on armament reached 4.1% of GDP.

The Saudi State Security Apparatus said on Friday (May 18, 2018) that it arrested 7 seven suspects accused of making contacts with foreign circles.

Special Forces arrested on Thursday (May 17, 2018) at dawn two Bahraini females after raiding their houses in Nuwaidrat, south east of Manama.

Amnesty International considered the Bahraini verdict that revoked the citizenship of 115 people and the life sentences issued against 53 of them on terrorism-related charge ludicrous.

Qatar's ruler on Thursday personally thanked Iran's President Hassan Rouhani for his country's support during an almost year-long Gulf crisis, which has seen the emirate cut adrift by neighboring former allies.

The European Union took steps Friday to avoid re-imposed US sanctions on Iran and save the international nuclear deal as a rift with Washington widened.

Saudi Arabia has arrested at least five people, mostly women who previously agitated for the right to drive and an end to the kingdom’s male guardianship system, rights activists said on Friday.

The company owned by the family of President Donald Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, is close to receiving a bailout of its flagship New York building from a company with ties to Qatar, The New York Times reported Thursday.

U.S. President Donald Trump’s longtime personal lawyer Michael Cohen asked the Qatari government for at least $1 million in December 2016 in exchange for access or insight into the Trump administration, the Washington Post reported.

A Bahrain court Tuesday sentenced 115 Bahrainis to jail terms ranging from three years to life and stripped them of their nationality for forming an Iran-linked "terrorist" group, the public prosecutor said.

A Bahrain court on Tuesday revoked the citizenship of 115 people at a mass terrorism trial, the most to lose their nationality at any one time, amid a years-long crackdown on all dissent in the island kingdom.

A court in Bahrain revoked the citizenship of 115 people and gave 53 of them life sentences on terrorism charges, the public prosecutor said on Tuesday, in one of the most severe rulings yet in the Gulf island kingdom.

A political analyst at the Brookings Institution said what we witness in Middle East of alignment of interest between the Sunni Arab states led by Saudi Arabia and Israel is very interesting.