UNESCO added Saudi Arabia’s Al-Ahsa Oasis and Oman’s ancient city of Qalhat to its World Heritage List, the world cultural body said.

Secretary-General of the National Institution for Human Rights (NIHR), Khalifa Al-Fadhel, said that the institution trained 880 individuals during the second quarter of this year.

The ban imposed on outdoor work from noon to four pm will begin on July 1 and run until August 31.

Iraq said Friday executed 13 death row jihadists after Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi vowed a forceful retaliation to calm public anger over the Islamic State group's murder of abducted civilians.

Oil prices rose on Friday, rallying on concerns that U.S. sanctions against Iran would remove a substantial volume of crude oil from world markets at a time of rising global demand.

The Fourth High Criminal Court sentenced 4 individuals to 7 years in jail over charge of kidnapping a Bahraini and torturing him in a farm in Dar Kulaib, forcing him to confess in front of a video camera that he is an informant and sending the video to people outside Bahrain.

The Bahraini security authorities released on Thursday (June 28, 2018) Dr. Saeed Al-Samahiji after serving his one-month jail term.

Media website specialized in military affairs said that Bahrain will be the first customer to procure the F-16 Block 70, the newest and most advanced F-16 production configuration, after Lockheed Martin has received a $1.12 billion contract to produce new F-16 fighter jets for the Royal Bahraini Air Force.

King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa issued Royal Order 31/2018 appointing Director General of the General Secretariat of the Supreme Council for Women (SCW).

The latest report by analytics firm STR has revealed some troubling numbers regarding Bahrain's hotel industry, stressing that Bahrain's tourism market suffered from a decline in key performance indicators in May.

Fitch Rating said in a statement reported by Reuters that the financial support for Bahrain, being prepared by the GCC, will ease near-term external financing pressures, but a more durable improvement in Bahrain's financial position will depend both on the scale and nature of GCC support and on Bahrain's ability to implement fiscal reform.

Bloomberg, the economic news website, said Bahrain pledged to implement steps to repair its strained finances widely seen as crucial to help the kingdom receive support from Gulf Arab allies.

Bahriani youth Ali Hassan Ali Mansour, from A’ali village, died yesterday (Thursday, June 28, 2018) in India.

Director-General of Southern Governorate Police announced that as part of the directives of Southern Governor, Khalifa bin Ali Al Khalifa, a number of illegal expatriate workers were arrested.

Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, whose political bloc came first in a May parliamentary election, said on Thursday he was scaling back his militia to strengthen the incoming government and its security forces.

A top U.S. Senate Democrat said on Thursday he cannot support for now a Trump administration plan to sell high-tech munitions to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates over concerns about the war in Yemen, a decision that could derail the sale.

The United Arab Emirates argued before World Court judges on Thursday that a case brought against it by Qatar for alleged discrimination against Qatari citizens was without merit and should be dismissed.

The absence of any signal of financial aid from Bahrain’s neighbors sent the kingdom’s credit risk rising the most in emerging markets this month, reported Bloomberg in a report published on Tuesday.

Saudi women began started heading to Bahrain to receiving driving training to avoid long queues back in their country, Saudi Arabia's Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper reported, citing hundreds of Saudi women entering Bahrain to learn to drive.

Bahrain’s Appeals Court adjourned looking into the case of Shiite cleric Sheikh Ali Rahma and set September 24 as a date for pleading.