The Bahraini Prime Minister who has been serving since the Independence died at the age of 85. He spent most of life in governance and decision-making positions.

A Palestinian official said on Wednesday (November 18, 2020) that the Palestinians are willing to return the two ambassadors to the UAE and Bahrain after being summoned in protest against their states signing of agreements, brokered by the United States, to establish relations with Israel, Reuters reported.

A Bahraini court sentenced on Wednesday (November 18, 2020) Shiite cleric Sheikh Ibrahim Al-Ansari to 6 months over a religious sermon he delivered in Ashura.

King of Bahrain Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa and his son, the Prime Minister and Crown Prince, Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, took part in an Emirati-Bahraini-Jordanian summit in Abu Dhabi. The UAE Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed Al-Nahyan hosted Jordan's King Abdullah II.

Bahrain's Foreign Minister Abdullatif Al-Zayani left Bahrain to Tel Aviv on Wednesday (November 18, 2020) in a first official visit to a Bahraini official since the signing of the normalization agreement in the White House.

Iraq and Saudi Arabia opened the Arar border crossing for trade for the first time in three decades, the Iraqi border ports commission said on Wednesday.

The Saudi-Led coalition said on Wednesday that it destroyed an explosive-laden drone launched by Yemen's Houthis towards the kingdom, according to state TV.

Three U.S. senators said on Wednesday they would introduce legislation seeking to halt the Trump administration's effort to sell more than $23 billion of drones and other weapons systems to the United Arab Emirates, setting up a showdown with the president just weeks before he is due to leave office.

Israel and Bahrain will institute an E-visa system on Dec 1 to facilitate travel by their citizens between the two countries, Bahrain's foreign minister said on Wednesday, anticipating 14 weekly flights between the Gulf kingdom and Tel Aviv.

Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan and Israeli President Reuven Rivlin exchanged invitations on Tuesday to visit their respective countries, UAE state news agency WAM reported, the latest step in Israel's thaw with Arab states.

Former US president Barack Obama discussed in his memoir issued on (November 17) the US policy during which was known as the "Arab Spring" in 2011. Obama acknowledged the "contradiction" as he sought to balance "competing interests", and presented a bleak portrait of how much of the Middle East's leadership.

There are no official figures on the wealth of the late Emir Shaikh Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa, the former Bahraini Prime Minister, however, the memory of the people in Bahrain is filled with many stories about his vast wealth which he gathered by plundering public money and seizing lands during his five decades as a Prime Minister.

President Donald Trump's Middle East envoy, Avi Berkowitz, will lead a U.S. delegation to Bahrain and Israel this week to discuss expanded economic cooperation between the two countries, a senior White House official said on Monday.

The Palestinian Ambassador to Bahrain, Khaled Aref, returned to the Kingdom on Sunday (November 15, 2020) after being summoned by the Foreign Minister on (September 13, 2020) in protest against the normalization agreement between the Israeli entity and Bahrain.

The U.S. military flew Bahrain's terminally ill prime minister to America for hospital care two months before his death, the State Department acknowledged Friday, underlining the importance of the island kingdom.

A tripartite Bahraini-Israeli-US meeting will take place on Wednesday in Jerusalem with the participation of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Bahraini Foreign Minister Abdullatif bin Rashid Al-Zayani and his US counterpart, Mike Pompeo, the Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation reported on Monday.

Since the king's decision to appoint his son, Crown Prince Shaikh Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, as first deputy PM (March 11, 2013), under the pretext of "developing the performance of the executive institution", it has been clear that the (long) reign of Prime Minister Shaikh Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa had come to an end.

King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa performed funeral prayers on body of Bahrain's Prime Minister Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa in Hunainiyah Cemetery in Riffa.

Activist Ali Mushaima announced on Wednesday (November 11, 2020) that the health situation of his father, Secretary-General of Haq Movement, Hasan Mushaima, deteriorated.

Qatar's Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani sent a cable of condolences to the family of Bahrain's PM Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa who passed away on Wednesday (November 11, 2020).