Security authorities affiliated to the Interior Ministry raided at the early hours of Friday a number of houses in Sitra, and arrested at least 3 citizens from “Safala” village, accounts specialized in monitoring raids and arrests affirmed.

Bahrain's embassy in Amman called on Bahrainis in Jordan to keep their distance from places of rallies and exercise caution for the sake of their safety in light of the current regional developments.

The White House said on Thursday it believed that Saudi Arabia would allow a blocked port in Yemen to open after President Donald Trump urged Riyadh to lift a blockade to let humanitarian aid reach the Yemeni people.

The United Arab Emirates and Bahrain expect to be removed from the European Union's tax-haven blacklist after taking steps to block tax avoidance by companies, the governments of the two countries said on Thursday.

Bahrain will join a group of countries committed to fighting corporate tax avoidance as it seeks to be taken off the European Union's tax-haven blacklist, the Bahraini Ministry of Finance said on Thursday.

U.S. President Donald Trump called for Saudi Arabia on Wednesday to immediately allow humanitarian aid to reach the Yemeni people, suggesting Washington had run out patience with a Saudi-led blockade that has been condemned by relief organizations.

Qatar will buy fighter jets and armored vehicles as part of 12 billion euros worth of commercial contracts it agreed with France on Thursday, bolstering its military capability and its international ties as it faces a boycott by other Arab states.

Iraq's senior shi‘ite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani condemned on Thursday U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital. '‘This decision is condemned and decried, it hurt the feelings of hundreds of millions of Arabs and Muslims,‘' said a statement from Sistani's office.

A Bahraini court adjourned the case of the President of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) and prominent human rights defender, Nabeel Rajab, until January 15 for closing arguments.

The United Arab Emirates will have to do more to address the European Union's concerns about tax transparency if it is to be removed from a tax-haven blacklist, the EU's ambassador to the UAE said on Wednesday.

The National Institution for Human Rights (NIHR) said that it visited the spiritual leader of Shia majority Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim at the hospital after his health deteriorated.

The Public Prosecutor's Office extended the detention of 70 Bahrainis arrested in the Diraz raid for 30 additional days on Thursday (December 7, 2017), after they have completed six months in behind bars.

Four UN experts have called on Bahrain to ensure the human rights of the country's most senior Shia leader, 76 year old Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim, are fully respected.

The National Audit Office report for the years 2016-2017 stated that the Ministry of Finance’s payments to Aramco company for the state’s crude oil were overdue.

The National Audit Office report for the years 2016-2017 revealed that the Oil and Gas Holding Company did not pay 56.4 billion BD of due state returns in 2016.

The National Audit Office report for the years 2016-2017 revealed that the actuarial deficit of the public and private retirement funds reached 1.06 billion BD at the end of 2016 after it was 6.3 billion BD at the end of 2012, i.e. a 73% increase.

A house in the town of Diraz near the residence of the spiritual leader of the Shiite majority in Bahrain, Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim, burst into flames, after the indiscriminate and heavy firing of Interior Ministry forces.

The Shura Council approved in its session held recently a bill that provides for the deduction two dollars from every barrel of crude oil whose price exceeds $80.

The Directorate General of Nationality, Passports and Residence Affairs (NPRA) said that the issuance of entry visas for Qatari national and foreign nationals residing in Qatar would see some delay, noting that this would "affect the movement of families between Bahrain and Qatar."

Bahrain’s Public Prosecution referred on Wednesday (December 6, 2017) the first case related to Diraz assembly to court, in which one of the citizens is accused of attempting to run over a policeman.