The Fifth High Appeals Court adjourned the appeals of suspects, accused of setting police patrol to fire by Molotov, killing a policeman in Karbabad and attempting to kill others, to October 23 for pleading and getting the rest appellants. 2 of the suspects in this case are sentenced to death penalty and 11 other are sentenced to life in prison.

The First High Criminal Court ordered the Public Prosecution to summon the 19th attesting witness in the case of 23 suspects who 17 of them could flee Dry Dock Prison on June 3, 2016, after attacking and beating a number of policemen and stealing a bus drives by an Asian man. The rest of the suspects whose ages range between 19 and 27 years helped the fugitives to flee and hid them.

The Bahraini Minister of Foreign Affairs, Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa, retweeted Israeli journalist Raphael Ahren’s tweet, showing more signs of the ruling Bahraini family’s normalization of relations with the Jewish state.

The King of Bahrain Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa called on the government to take the necessary steps to achieve balance between expenditures and public revenues.

Bahraini detainee Rawan Sanqour’s health has been affected by the deteriorating conditions in the women's prison in Isa Town, about two weeks after her arrest, said human rights sources.

Bahraini Minister of Foreign Affairs, Khalid bin Ahmed bin Mohammed Al Khalifa, received Special Envoy of the President of the French Republic to the Gulf, Bertrand Besancenot, to discuss the almost five-month long Qatar crisis.

The high criminal court acquitted a 20-year-old man of alleged involvement in the bombing of the Sar area, while the other two defendants, aged 15, were sentenced to six months in prison each for possessing Molotov cocktails.

The Fifth High Criminal Appeals Court postponed the case of Al-Wefaq leader Sheikh Hasan Isa and others to October 22 for pleading.

Hezbollah Secretary General, Sayed Hassan Nasrallah, slammed Saudi Arabia, accusing it of waging wars and standing, along with Israel, as an obstacle in front of achieving regional security and stability.

The Iraqi government said on Monday it would seek to impose control over Kurdistan-based mobile phone operators and move their headquarters to the capital

The Kremlin said on Monday that talks with Saudi Arabia over Moscow supplying Riyadh with advanced S-400 air defence missile systems had gone well so far despite talk of a possible U.S.-Saudi arms deal.

China said on Monday it hopes the Iran nuclear deal will stay intact, playing an important role in keeping the peace, after a senior U.S. official said President Donald Trump is expected to decertify the agreement.

The Bahraini security authorities continued raiding the citizens houses in a number of areas. At least 7 citizens, including a child, were arrested in less than 24 hours.

Northern Police Director said via the Ministry of Interior official Twitter account that “Blast heard in Shahrakan village, initial details show caused by gas cylinder, legal steps taken.”

President Donald Trump is expected to announce soon that he will decertify the landmark international deal to curb Iran’s nuclear program, a senior administration official said on Thursday, in a step that potentially could cause the 2015 accord to unravel.

Saudi Arabia on Friday rejected a United Nations report blaming a Saudi-led military coalition for killing or injuring 683 children in Yemen and attacking dozens of schools and hospitals as “inaccurate and misleading.”

The United States Embassy in Saudi Arabia warned U.S. citizens to exercise caution in the area around the Peace Palace in Jeddah on Saturday after reports on social media of an attack there.

The head of Bahrain’s public security Tariq Al-Hassan denied the circulated news stating that the security authorities recently arrested four children for political reasons, describing the reports as “paid lies”.

The Bahraini government approved toughening the penalty for “electoral crimes” for up to two years imprisonment and a 2,000 dinar fine, which is part of a bill to amend the election system of municipal council members.

The Bahraini security authorities released eulogy reciter Mahdi Sahwan on Saturday (October 7, 2017), after serving 6 months in prison for participating in the Diraz open sit-in.