Iraq’s armed forces have instructions to prevent “foreign fighters” from launching cross-border attacks on Turkey, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi told his Turkish counterpart, Binali Yildirim.

Two Qatari fighter jets flew dangerously close to two civilian aircraft from the United Arab Emirates while they were in Bahraini airspace on Monday, UAE state news agency WAM quoted its civil aviation authority as saying.

Bahraini officials conducting a roadshow for investors ahead of a possible sovereign bond issue have not disclosed details of additional financial support that the country may receive from its Gulf neighbours, fund managers at the meetings said.

The Ministry of Health (MoH) denied what was circulated in media channels about banning the sickle cell anemia patient medicine in private hospitals, stressing that the circulated news is baseless.

The Bahraini security authorities released former secretary-general of Wahdawi Society, Fadhel Abbas, on Monday (March 26, 2018) after serving a three-year prison term.

Bahraini Oil Minister Mohammed bin Khalifa Al Khalifa said that the volume of revenues and savings expected from the adjustment of the price of petrol is estimated at 26 million dinars a year.

Bahraini Interior Minister announced taking tough steps to deal with what he described as unprecedented chaos by disruptive social media accounts.

Bahraini Military Court of Cassation looked into the appeals filed in case in which civilians were accused of plotting to assassinate Military Commander Field Marshal Khalifa bin Ahmed Al Khalifa.

Bahraini High Court of Appeals decided to commute penalty of a defendant, accused of assaulting a policeman, to six months in prison instead of one year.

The Bahraini security authorities raided today (Monday, March 26, 2018) at dawn dozens of houses in number of villages, arresting at least 17 citizens, 12 of them from Al-Daih.

A Thai woman has been rescued on Monday (March 26, 2018) from forced prostitution in Bahrain, a deputy chief of the police’s Anti-Trafficking in Persons Division said on Monday.

Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy (BIRD) said that a Bahraini court sentenced on Monday (March 26, 2018) Nizar Al-Wadaie, brother-in-law of UK-based human rights activist Ahmad Al-Wadaie, in a third case fabricated against him, to 7 years in jail. Nizar faces now 13 years in prison.

DP World plans to acquire stakes in two special economic zones in Kazakhstan, the state-owned ports operator said on Saturday during a visit to the UAE by Kazakh­stan’s president, Nursultan Nazarbayev.

Two suicide attackers struck a Shiite mosque in Afghanistan Sunday, killing at least one person and wounding eight others, officials said, in the latest assault against the Muslim minority claimed by the Islamic State group.

Saudi Arabia has made little progress in removing textbook content that promotes violence and hatred towards religious minorities and others, a U.S. government watchdog said, encouraging Riyadh to take the issue more seriously.

President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday that Turkey had begun operations in Iraq’s Sinjar region, an area where it has threatened a military incursion, two days after sources said Kurdish PKK militants would withdraw from the area.

Seventy-five percent of French people want President Emmanuel Macron to suspend arms’ exports to countries, including Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, involved in the Yemeni war, a YouGov poll showed on Monday.

The General Directorate of Traffic arrested a man for stunt driving at the Buhair roundabout. A Bahraini had filmed his stunts and filed a complaint against him.

Sayed Ahmed AlWadaei, a prominent Bahraini rights campaigner exiled in Britain, said on Saturday a Bahraini court had sentenced his wife to two months in jail in absentia this week and that his mother-in-law had begun a hunger strike in jail.

Electricity and Water Affairs Minister Abdulhussain Mirza confirmed that the government will invite the private sector to invest in electricity, in a framework of plan for renewable energy.