Bahrain’s ambassador to Washington Abdullah bin Rashid Al Khalifa (son of the Bahraini Minister of Foreign Affairs) defended, in a statement to an Israeli newspaper on Thursday (May 10, 2018), the Israeli strikes on Syria saying that “no country would tolerate aggression of any kind”.

Kuwait will not implement value-added tax before 2021 but will push ahead with introducing excise tax, parliament’s budget committee said in a statement posted on the assembly’s website on Tuesday.

Al-Wefaq condemned the terrorist acts in France and Indonesia and affirmed its categorical rejection of all forms of violence, terrorism, instigation of acts of terror and attack on people around the world.

The Al-Ayam local newspaper said that the Fourth High Criminal Court convicted 115 suspects in a case known as "Zulfiqar Brigades".

Official statistics showed that the revenues of Telecommunication Regulatory Authority (TRA) collected from telecommunication companies reached 17 million BD.

Bahrain inaugurated on Monday (May 14, 2018) a new school in Abu Nasir governorate, in Jordan, to alleviate the suffering of Syrian refugees.

Hezbollah Secretary General Sayed Hassan Nasrallah described on Monday (May 14, 2018) the statement of Bahraini foreign minister Khalid Al Khalifa in which he defended Israel’s right in self-defense as “Ugly”.

The Bahraini authorities released on Monday (May 14, 2018) Taiba Darwish, after serving 3 years in prison over charge of aiding protestors.

Populist cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, a long-time adversary of the United States, has all but won Iraq’s parliamentary election, the electoral commission said, in a surprise turn of fortune for the Shi’ite leader.

Board of Directors of Bahrain Development Bank (BDB) announced appointment of Sanjeev Paul as Chief Executive Officer of BDB Group as of May 15, 2018.

Local Bahraini newspaper said Health Ministry set up a five-member medical committee to investigate an antibiotic drug believed to be unfi.

Bahrain's foreign assets have fallen by 49.2% in March, according to official data from the Central Bank of Bahrain.

Bahrain's Anti-Cyber Crime Directorate has warned against theft of private information and phone numbers installed in the Whatsapp social networking program.

Statistics revealed that the number of Indians living in Bahrain is 350 thousand versus 325 thousand in the UK.

A special assistant to the president on the national security council, hailed Bahrain’s recognition in “Israel’s right to self-defense” and “recognizing it as a country”.

Bahrain’s parliament approved a bill on Sunday barring members of dissolved opposition groups from running in elections, the latest step in a crackdown against dissent ahead of parliamentary polls this year.

Hundreds of supporters of Campaign against Arms Trade (CAAT) protested, at the entrance of the stadium where Royal Windsor Horse Show was held, against the presence of Bahraini King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, yesterday (Saturday, May 12, 2018).

Chairman of the Board of BAE Systems for arms admitted that “BAE Systems equipment may have been used by Saudi forces in a military intervention to crush anti-government protests in Bahrain in 2011.”

Gulf Air Deputy Chief Executive Officer Waleed Al-Alawi said that “the company doesn’t plan to dismiss employees within its new strategy,” indicating that “Gulf Air is not passing through conditions to construct its operations, however, it is broadening through new destinations”.

The Shura Council agreed, in consensus, in its session, on preventing leaders and members of political societies dissolved in a final verdict for committing grave breaches of the provisions of the Constitution from running into elections. It also prevented those who intended to violate or disrupt parliamentary and constitutional life from running into elections.