The seventh Askari Imams campaign for blood donation managed to collect 172 blood units, in a blood drive organized by the Charitable A’ali Society, the Bahrain Society for Sickle Cell Anaemia Patient Care and the A’ali Health Center.

Bahraini Finance Minister Ahmed bin Mohammed Al Khalifa said that Bahrain will start implementing the selective tax law as of early 2018, i.e. 10 days from now.

Bahrain News Agency said that King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa arrived in the Moroccan Capital and was welcomed by Prince Moulay Rachid.

Saudi Arabia announced on Friday that passengers traveling on its airlines to the United Kingdom would once again be allowed to carry on electronic devices, reversing a ban put in place earlier this year for security reasons.

A Turkish foreign ministry official said on Thursday the United Arab Emirates charge d‘affaires was summoned to the ministry over comments about an Ottoman commander retweeted by the UAE foreign minister.

Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri said on Thursday Gulf Arab countries were planning no action against Lebanon after a political crisis last month thrust it onto the front line of rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran.

The United States on Thursday said it welcomed an announcement by a Saudi-led coalition to keep the Hodeidah port in Yemen open for a month and allow humanitarian aid to flow through, and condemned a Houthi bombing of a palace in Saudi Arabia.

King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa issued four decrees for 2017, appointing 2 Assistant Undersecretaries at the Ministry of Information Affairs, Assistant Undersecretary at the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Tourism, Director General at the Bahrain Authority for Culture and Antiquity and Ambassador in Thailand.

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan leapt to the defence of an Ottoman military commander on Wednesday after the United Arab Emirates foreign minister retweeted accusations that Ottoman forces looted the holy city of Medina during World War One.

Senior advisor at Human Rights First, Brian Dooley, stressed that prominent Bahraini human rights defender Abdulhadi Al Khawaja, who was convicted and jailed with other leading peaceful dissidents, is now being targeted again, inside prison.

National Audit Office report for the years 2016-2017 said that the Electricity and Water Authority did not take any measures against consumers who stopped paying the bills over long periods of time.

The National Audit Office report for the years 2016-2017 said the Bahraini Ministry of Transportation and Telecommunication recorded a 55% decrease in the percentage of expenditure which equals to 370,804 out of the actual budget that amounts to 60,748,789.

Bahrain's Foreign Minister, Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa, deemed the US president’s move recognizing Jerusalem as Israel's capital a "side issue".

45 candidates will run the elections of the Bahrain Chamber of Commerce and Industry that is to be held on March 10. It is to note that this will be the 29th election session for the board of directors. This session will witness momentum of old candidates and new youth candidates.

A Bahraini appeals court upheld on Wednesday (December 20, 2017) a verdict sentencing Hajar Mansour (49 years) and her son Sayed Nizar Nehme Al-Wadaei (19 years) to 3 years in prison. The court also sentenced Hajar Mansour’s nephew Mahmoud Marzouq (30 years) to one month in jail and 100 BD fine over a case of “putting hoax bomb in A’ali”.

Family of missing sailor Mostafa Hassan said that the Qatari authorities arrested their son along with two Asian workers.

The Bahraini government condemned the ballistic missile attack by Yemenis over Riyadh.

Air strikes by the Saudi-led military coalition in Yemen have killed at least 136 civilians and non-combatants since Dec. 6, the U.N. human rights spokesman said on Tuesday.

Three people were killed and more than 80 wounded on Tuesday when Kurdish demonstrators joined a second day of protests against years of austerity and unpaid public sector salaries amid tensions between their region and Baghdad.

Saudi Arabia said on Tuesday that no casualties had been reported after a ballistic missile fired from Yemen was intercepted by Saudi forces south of the capital Riyadh.