The Bahraini authorities released on Tuesday (October 10, 2017) night 4 children whose ages range between 12 and 13 years, after a week on their arrest over political reasons.

Bahrain’s Second High Criminal Court decided to reject, in absentia, the right of a 50-year-old Bahraini accused of “assembly” to appeal.

Saudi Arabia plans to award a construction contract for its first nuclear reactors by the end of 2018, a senior government official said on Tuesday.

A senior United Arab Emirates official said Qatar's hosting of the 2022 World Cup should depend on it rejecting "extremism and terrorism", in comments that drew the soccer tournament into the diplomatic row among rich Gulf monarchies.

The General State budget data for 2018 revealed that the Bahraini Government allocated more than 28% of general revenues for defence, security and safety sector.

Minister of Foreign Affairs Khalid bin Ahmed bin Mohammed Al Khalifa met former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Tony Blair, as part of his visit to the Kingdom of Bahrain.

Iran said Tuesday that the United States would be siding with the Islamic State group if it designated the Revolutionary Guards as a terrorist organisation.

Bahrain News Agency (BNA) said that the Director of the Office of International Labour Affairs at the US Department of State, Steve Moody, arrived in Bahrain, along with the US Department of State Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, Angelo Maestas.

A new 350,000-barrels-per-day oil pipeline between Saudi Arabia and Bahrain will be completed next year to serve the planned expansion of Bahrain's refinery capacity, while construction of a gas pipeline is being considered, Bahrain's oil minister said.

U.S. President Donald Trump will make an announcement this week on an "overall Iran strategy," including whether to decertify the international deal curbing Tehran's nuclear program, the White House said on Tuesday.

An official source at the General Command of the Bahrain Defence Force (BDF) said that on Sunday, October 8, a Royal Bahraini Air Force (RBAF)’s fighter jet broke the sound barrier while conducting a night training exercise. The aircraft’s exceeding the speed of sound resulted in a sonic boom which generated significant sound energy similar to explosions, the source added.

Bahrain’s Second High (Appeal) Criminal Court upheld a verdict issued against a 50-year-old Bahraini, sentencing him for three years on charges of insulting the judiciary by publishing audio clips on social media sites, in which a judge and the Supreme Judicial Council are exposed.

The total number of Bahrainis working in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) States reached 2,604, including 130 Bahrainis in Qatar, whose diplomatic relations with Bahrain have been severed for over four months, official statistics revealed.

Reports this month have indicated the island kingdom of Bahrain will soon take steps to normalize ties with Israel, ending seven decades of a diplomatic boycott of the Jewish state.

The High Administrative Court in Bahrain rejected a lawsuit to invalidate the elections of the Bahrain Chamber of Commerce and Industry Board of Directors and nullify the election results.

The Bahrain Forum for Human Rights said it monitored the cases of continued enforced disappearance of 12 Bahrainis from the following four areas: Malikiyah, Diraz, Sanabis and Buri, including the case of Sayed Fadel Abbas Radhi, which has lasted over one year.

The Bahraini authorities continued their security campaign today (Tuesday, October 10, 2017) morning and arrested each of Mahdi Ahmad Muftah and Ali Mohammad Jaafar from Diraz village, after forcibly breaking into their houses.

Germany is worried that U.S. President Donald Trump will decide this week that Iran is not respecting a two-year-old deal to curb its nuclear programme and fears such a step will worsen the security situation in the Middle East.

France said on Monday it was worried that designating Iran’s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) as a terrorist group could exacerbate tensions in the region, and appeared to urge Tehran to show restraint.

Iran told the United States on Tuesday that it will keep “all options on table” if President Donald Trump designates its elite Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) as a terrorist organization.