U.S. House of Representatives' Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Friday she was glad that President Donald Trump called off planned military strikes on Iranian targets, saying the collateral damage would have been "very provocative."

President Donald Trump said on Friday he is not looking for war with Iran, but he warned that if a conflict did occur it would result in "obliteration."

Hundreds of Jordanian Islamists marched in the capital on Friday to denounce Washington's peace plan to end the Arab-Israeli conflict and demand their government boycott a conference in Bahrain next week that will examine the project.

A member of the House of Representatives, Kulthum Al-Hayiki, called for conducting a review of the law, which deprives members of dissolved political societies (opposition) of running for parliamentary elections.

The House of Representatives received an official letter including a request to hold an urgent meeting between Minister of Industry and Commerce Zayed Al-Zayyani and the 25 MPs who signed the statement issued two days ago, which described him as the “aggravating minister”.

The Saudi Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper said that a former general in the Israeli army will represent Israel in the upcoming economic workshop in Bahrain which will discuss the economic aspect of "deal of the century".

White House special envoy Jason Greenblatt lamented the Palestinian Authority's decision to boycott next week's economic summit - dubbed a "workshop" - in Bahrain.

Following mediation by Jared Kushner, adviser and son-in-law of US President Donald Trump, Bahrain announced that it would allow six Israeli media outlets to cover the US-led "Bahrain Workshop" scheduled for next week.

Hamas leader Ismail Haniya said Thursday his Palestinian movement rejected next week's US-sponsored Middle East economic conference in Bahrain as it would amount to Arab "normalisation" of ties with Israel.

A Yemeni rebel strike targeted a desalination plant in the southwestern Saudi province of Jizan, a Riyadh-led military coalition fighting the rebels said Thursday.

Palestinian businessmen boycotting the Trump administration's Bahrain workshop designed to encourage investment in the territories say only a diplomatic path to statehood can end decades of conflict with Israel.

The Pentagon on Thursday released an image it said showed the flight path for the drone that was shot down by Iran, but did not immediately provide a detailed explanation of the image.

U.S. House of Representatives' Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday called for the United States to de-escalate tensions with Iran, after top lawmakers attended a White House briefing on the downing of an American drone by Tehran.

Iran's foreign minister said on Twitter that a U.S. military drone that was shot down by Tehran on Thursday had taken off from the United Arab Emirates.

U.S. President Donald Trump approved military strikes on Friday against Iran in retaliation for the downing of an unmanned $130-million surveillance drone, but pulled back from launching the attacks, the New York Times said.

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration issued an emergency order on Thursday prohibiting U.S. operators from flying in Iran-controlled airspace over the Strait of Hormuz and Gulf of Oman due to heightened tensions.

The testimony of the head of Bahrain Chamber of Commerce and Industry Samir Nass at the Public Prosecution on June 17, 2019 was not for the people (the Shia) who were degraded, insulted and publicly humiliated by sectarian slurs made by his personal legal adviser

The First Lower Criminal Court adjourned the case of Egyptian advisor Yasser Al-Attar who is accused of inciting hatred against the Shiite sect.

The Jaffari Endowments (Waqf), under the presidency of Yousef Saleh Al-Saleh, chose in its first meeting, following the royal order, Ali Hassan Mahmoud as a vice president.

Member of Commission of Inquiry on "Bahrainization of Jobs, Yousef Zainal, said that the Health Minister Faeqa Al-Saleh confirmed the voluntary retirement of 1800 from the Health Ministry, including 58 doctors.