Israel said on Friday an Iranian drone it shot down over Israeli territory in February was armed with explosives and was meant to carry out an attack.

The United States and its allies fired more than 100 missiles at Syria on Friday in a “one-time shot” the Pentagon said.

The Bahraini Interior Ministry said it found the body of a deceased person dumped on the road in the Jebla Habashi area.

Bahraini security forces arrested Ahmad Abd Al-Ali Al-Aali, from the town of Aali on April 13, 2018, after he was pursued by Interior Ministry forces.

Head of terrorist crimes prosecution office, Attorney-General Ahmad Al-Hammadi, said investigations have been concluded into case involving formation of a “terrorist group”.

Net foreign assets at Bahrain’s central bank dropped to a six-month low of 604.8 million dinars ($1.60 billion).

The next session of the Bahraini House of Representatives to be held on Tuesday will discuss the health insurance bill, which consists of 82 articles.

The arrest, torture and sexual abuse of women behind bars show one of the Bahraini regime’s hideous faces.

Bahraini security authorities continued to impose a siege on the predominantly Shiite towns of Ma'amir and Al-Ekr.

The Ministry of Health confirmed that it is attentively and carefully working on monitoring the health situation in Bahrain after the scabies outbreak in the region.

Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society, the largest opposition society in Bahrain, said that the authorities intensified their siege around the house of spiritual leader of Shia majority, Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim.

The First High Criminal Court sentenced a Gulf national businessman (45 years) to one year in jail over insulting a judge and attacking a policeman.

The Gulf crisis, which has seen Qatar isolated by Saudi Arabia and its allies, is not on the table at the upcoming meeting of Arab League states, Riyadh's foreign minister said Thursday.

Spain and Saudi Arabia have signed a framework agreement to sell the Gulf Arab state warships under a deal estimated to be worth around 1.8 billion euros (£1.6 billion).

Oil prices held steady on Thursday, remaining close to highs last reached in late 2014 on tensions over Syria and shrinking global oil inventories.

Ten people were killed and 14 wounded when explosive devices went off at a funeral for Sunni Muslim tribal fighters in the northern Iraqi town of Shirqat on Thursday, the town’s leader said.

CIA Director Mike Pompeo, U.S. President Donald Trump’s nominee to be secretary of state, said on Thursday he “wants to fix” the international Iran nuclear deal.

Grand Cinema, one of the leading cinemas in the Middle East, will officially open in the Kingdom on May 3 at The Walk Mall, Riffa. The Grand Cinema will have 12 theatres with a total of 1233 seats, designed with the latest technology and techniques.

U.S. Congressman James P. McGovern, Co-Chair of the bipartisan Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission in the U.S. issued a statement in which he condemned the April 4th decision by the Bahraini government to deny entry to the country to Lars Aslan Rasmussen, a Danish Member of Parliament, and Brian Dooley, senior advisor at Human Rights First, claiming the two posed a "security risk."

The spiritual leader of the Shiite majority in Bahrain, Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim, has returned to his home, where he has been held under house arrest for 325 days.