Four members of Saudi Arabia’s security forces were killed and four others wounded in clashes with gunmen on Thursday at a checkpoint in the southwestern Asir province, Saudi-owned Al Arabiya TV said.

Bahraini King’s media advisor, Nabeel Al-Hamer, a corrupt man, won the Media Personality of the Year award granted by the Arab Media Forum in Dubai.

Saudi Arabia has so far refrained from making a formal statement on the huge oil discovery in Bahrain.

The Fourth High Criminal Court postponed looking into the case of 138 defendants accused of establishing and joining the "Zulfiqar Brigades", until May 15 to issue its verdict.

A Bahrain court sentenced 24 Shiite citizens to prison and stripped them of their nationality after finding them guilty of forming a "terrorist group", a Bahraini judicial source said Thursday.

A magnitude 5.9 earthquake on Thursday struck Iran’s southern province of Bushehr, which is home to a nuclear power plant, state television reported, but there were no immediate reports of casualties or damage.

Coalition-backed forces killed two al Qaeda militants in Yemen in a raid in the southern province of Abyan on Wednesday, the Saudi government media office said.

The United States hopes to reach agreement with Britain, France and Germany to address President Donald Trump’s concerns about the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, Washington’s disarmament ambassador said on Thursday.

Qatar’s Elan Group is working with an adviser to sell Novo Cinemas’ theatres in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.

Education Minister Majid Al-Nuaimi said that female students represent 59% of the students in the institutions of higher education.

The oil discovery announced by Bahrain , if verified by an international oil consortium as being technically and economically recoverable, could stimulate private investment in the country's energy sector in the near term, according to Moody’s.

Building Maintenance Director at the Ministry of Works, Municipalities Affairs and Urban Planning Huda Mirza revealed that they completed the planning and designs required for the maintenance of 25 government schools in various Governorates, costing BD1,800,000.

The Bahraini security authorities put on Thursday (April 19, 2018) barbed wires around house of spiritual leader of Shia majority, Sheikh Isa Qassim, who is under house arrest.

A Bahraini court sentenced former MP Mohammed Khalid on Wednesday (April 18, 2018) to 3 months in prison and ordered a BD300 bail to stop execution of sentence after convicting him of insulting figures of a sect.

The House of Representatives agreed (Tuesday, April 17, 2018) on a health insurance bill and referred it to the Shura Council before presenting it to the King to ratify it.

A report issued on World Politics Review website stated that the nature of the new oil discovery in Bahrain is “an offshore shale oil field, which if successful would be the first of its kind in the world.”

A report issued by CBRE said that Bahrain's freehold apartment sector is poised for solid growth with a pipeline supply of almost 7,000 units planned for delivery over the next three years.

Investcorp, a leading global provider and manager of alternative investment products (whose headquarters is in Bahrain), announced that it has purchased Bürocampus Wangen, based in Stuttgart, Germany for approximately €80 million. The acquisition represents Investcorp's first real estate investment in Germany.

Mohammed Bin Abdullah Al Khalifa, President of Bahrain Supreme Council of Health, said that the rate of increase in the cost of health services range from 10-12% per year.

Bahrain Forum for Human Rights (BFHR) said that it monitored 1668 serious human rights violations during March 2018.