The Higher Education Council (HEC) has decided not to accredit the business management Master’s degrees issued by the Arab Open University (AOU) – Bahrain Branch. The HEC General-Secretariat said that the academic degrees won’t be accredited until required documents are submitted by the AOU-Bahrain Branch.

The Bahraini security authorities arrested on Thursday (December 14, 2017) at least 4 citizens through raids carried out by forces affiliated to the Interior Ministry.

Prime Minister Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa issued Edict 40 and 41/2017 appointing two directors.

King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa issued decree 77 of 2017 establishing the High Committee for the Development of Hawar Islands. Supreme Council for the Environment (SCE) President Abdulla bin Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa will chair the newly-established panel.

The Israeli Jerusalem Post reported Rabbi Abraham Cooper, the associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center as saying that a delegation of Israeli business leaders is due to visit Bahrain next month in a follow-up to the current visit to Jerusalem of a Bahraini interfaith group.

The High Court of Appeal (December 13, 2017) upheld on Wednesday a 10-year prison term for a member of the ISIS group, also revoking his nationality.

There are no signs that a blockade of Yemen’s ports by a Saudi-led military coalition has eased to allow aid to reach communities increasingly at risk of starvation, the head of the US government’s aid agency said on Tuesday.

The US Congress will allow a deadline on reimposing sanctions on Iran to pass this week, congressional and White House aides said on Tuesday.

Qatar will run a deficit of $7.7 billion in 2018, a third consecutive year in the red due to low energy prices, the finance ministry said Tuesday.

UN officials who examined debris from missiles fired at Saudi Arabia from Yemen have not confirmed that they were Iranian-made but are still analyzing the information, according to a confidential report obtained by AFP on Monday.

An interfaith group from Bahrain is visiting Israel amid turmoil there over U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital, angering some in the island nation who support the Palestinians.

Four Bahraini human rights organizations, the Bahrain Center for Human Rights, the Bahrain Forum for Human Rights, Salam for Democracy and Human Rights, and the Gulf Institute for Democracy and Human Rights, published a report monitoring grave violations in suppressing the Diraz peaceful assembly on May 23, 2017, after the security forces used excessive force to end the gathering, which lasted about a year near the house of the highest religious authority for Shiites in Bahrain, Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim, in a report entitled: A Crime Outside Coverage.

Prime Minister Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa issued Edict 39/2017 appointing directors in the Ministry of Education.

BDF Chief-of-Staff Dhiyab bin Saqr Al Nuaimi received Peninsula Shield Joint Forces (PSJF) Commander Waleed bin Falih Al-Zhahery.

Kuwait replaced its oil, finance and defense ministers in a cabinet reshuffle on Monday, state news agency KUNA reported.

Warring sides must let more aid get through to 8.4 million people who are "a step away from famine" in Yemen, a senior U.N. official said on Monday.

An interfaith group from Bahrain said it has sent a delegation to Israel to promote "tolerance and coexistence," but insisted that it does not represent the government in Manama. The non-governmental organization, which calls itself "This is Bahrain," said it had no official status though its mission statements say it has the backing of King Hamad.

The security authorities launched today (Monday, December 11, 2017) at dawn vast campaign that resulted in the arrest of at least 6 citizens, according to networks specialized in monitoring the security raids.

The highest religious authority Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim returned on Sunday (December 10, 2017) to his besieged house in Diraz, two days after undergoing an urgent surgery.

Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society in Bahrain announced on Sunday (December 10, 2017) its categorical rejection and strong condemnation of the arrival of a Bahraini government delegation to the city of Jerusalem.