Bahraini Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa received a parliamentary delegation from the United Kingdom, and discussed with them “situations on the international and regional levels”, according to an official statement.

Sayed Ahmed Al-Wadaei, director of advocacy at Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy in London, published an article in “The Guardian” newspaper in which he said that his family is paying the price while Bahrain is buying arms in London.

ivil Service Bureau (CSB) President, Ahmed bin Zayed Al-Zayed, issued Civil Service Instructions 5/2017 for regulating, managing, implementing and controlling the manpower expenditure budget of the governmental entities for the fiscal years 2017-2018. The instruction is in line with the financial regulations to manage, implement and control of the government’s general budget, which was promulgated by Law 20/2017 on adopting the government’s general budget for the fiscal years 2017-2018.

Executive Director of Financial Institutions Supervision in Central Bank of Bahrain Abdul Rahman Al-Baker expected that the share of the total health insurance premiums will increase to at least 35% in case the compulsory health insurance is implemented.

The Al-Ayam local newspaper reported from what it described as a well-informed source that the government intends to change the postal sector in the ministry of transportation and telecommunications into a profit-making association, adding that the provided postal services will be based on the principle of full profitability instead of symbolic fees.

United States Ambassador to Bahrain, William Roebuck, refused, in his response to a question during his visit to the Al-Ayam daily to mark the end of his period as Ambassador to Bahrain, to retract the criticism raised by the US State Department in its report on religious freedoms in Bahrain.

A controversial member of Qatar's royal family said Saturday that Qatari authorities have frozen his bank accounts over his role in Doha's crisis with its neighbours.

The fourth high criminal court in Bahrain sentenced a 16-year-old boy to one year in prison on charges of staring fire and setting up a replica of explosives on a road in Al-Sahla.

Tension flared on Saturday in the ethnically mixed Iraqi town of Tuz Khurmatu after a clash between Kurdish and Shi‘ite Turkmen political parties divided over the independence of the Kurdistan region, security sources said on Saturday.

Israel and Saudi Arabia showed their support to US President Donald Trump on Friday after he refused to certify the 2015 Iranian nuclear deal signed P5+1 in 2015.

Iraqi forces Friday retook positions controlled by Kurdish peshmerga fighters since 2014 in the oil-rich province of Kirkuk amid a bitter row with the Kurds over a vote for independence last month.

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) announced that it strongly supports US President Donald Trump's new strategy to address the full range of Iran's destructive actions.

The Kingdom of Bahrain followed Saudi Arabia and Israel’s footsteps, declaring its support for United States President Donald Trump’s new strategy against Iran.

A Bahraini minor criminal court sentenced Bahraini businessman Samih Rajab to one month in prison, over charges of insulting and slandering the Minister of Industry and Commerce Zayed Al-Zayani.

Bahrain witnessed mass rallies on Friday (October 13, 2017) that were held in various areas across the country. Protesters condemned the Bahraini regime’s normalization of relations with Israel and the arrests of children launched by the security authorities.

Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif said Iran was not surprised that supporters of the United States President Donald Trump’s “inane speech” on Iran and the nuclear deal are Persian Gulf states, such as Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Bahrain.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani denounced on Friday (October 13, 2017) what he described as “baseless accusations” in response to his US counterpart Donald Trump’s speech and the United States’ aggressive new strategy towards Iran.

US President Donald Trump refused on Friday (October 13, 2017) to certify the nuclear agreement with Iran.

The security authorities in Jaw Central Prison prevented the prominent opposition leader who is sentenced to life in prison, Hassan Mushaima, from medical treatment and banned him from going to his medical appointment on Tuesday (October 10, 2017).

Human rights activist Sheikh Maytham Al-Salman met Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders Michel Forst.