Saudi Arabia has agreed to buy about $7 billion worth of precision guided munitions from U.S. defense contractors, sources familiar with the matter said, a deal that some lawmakers may object to over American weapons having contributed to civilian deaths in the Saudi campaign in Yemen.

Kuwait's Emir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber al-Sabah was discharged from hospital on Thursday after successful medical tests, state news agency (KUNA) reported, one day after he was admitted following a cold.

Iraqi forces launched an operation on Thursday to clear the desert bordering Syria of Islamic State in a final push to rid Iraq of the militant group, the military said.

Qatar took the final step on Wednesday to start litigation at the World Trade Organization in its row with the United Arab Emirates, but no other WTO members spoke up in support of the move, which many trade experts see as a dangerous precedent.

The High Criminal Court of Appeal rejected the appeal of one out of six defendants, and upheld the 7-year prison sentence issued against them all.

The House of Representatives rejected an “urgent” proposal to equalize the certificates of Bahraini graduates from Chinese universities who were allegedly sent by the government on scholarships.

The Bahraini House of Representatives passed in its session held yesterday on Tuesday (November 21, 2017) a bill presented by Parliament Chairman Ahmed Al-Mulla that considers hiding wanted persons by the security apparatus and covering for them a “terrorist crime” whose penalty can reach up to life imprisonment or death penalty.

The First High Appeals Court commuted the sentence of an appellant out of 3 appellants, whose ages ranges between 16 and 17, convicted to 3 years in prison, to one year in prison, over the charges of attempting to blast gas cylinder in Diraz Park.

Bahrain's Justice, Islamic Affairs and Endowments Minister Khalid bin Ali Al-Khalifa obligated notaries public and legal documentation officers to report any suspicions of money laundering or terror funding.

The European Parliament is set to hold a public hearing on Freedom of religion or belief: the situation of persecuted minorities on Wednesday (November 22, 2017) at its headquarters in the Belgian capital Brussels.

Dozens of rights activists participated in two protests held outside the Bahraini embassies in the British capital London and the US capital, Washington.

A Bahraini appeals court upheld on Wednesday (November 22, 201) a 2-year jail verdict against prominent human rights defender and president of Bahrain Center for Human Rights, Nabeel Rajab, over television interviews he made with foreign media outlets.

New US Ambassador to Bahrain Justin Hick Siberell visited each of the Interior Minister Rashid Al Khalifa and BDF Commander-in-Chief Khalifa bin Ahmed Al Khalifa.

Bahrain Royal Navy Force (BRNF) announced that it will carry out at live ammunition firing exercise at the Hair Bu Amama area next week.

Lebanon's Saad al-Hariri said on Wednesday he would hold off presenting his resignation as prime minister in response to a request from President Michel Aoun to allow more dialogue.

A request by the United Arab Emirates central bank for local banks and finance companies to provide details of the accounts of 19 Saudi Arabian citizens was just an information-gathering exercise, the central bank governor told reporters on Wednesday.

The United Nations said on Tuesday it had accepted a proposal from Iraq to pay 0.5 percent of its 2018 oil proceeds toward compensation for $4.6 billion owed to Kuwait for destruction of its oil facilities during the 1990-91 Gulf War occupation.

Yemen's Sanaa airport, damaged in an air strike by a Saudi-led coalition last week, has been repaired and is ready to receive international flights, the Houthi-led government which runs the capital city said on Tuesday.

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said on Tuesday Islamic State had been defeated from a military perspective but he would only declare final victory after IS militants were routed in the desert.

Saad al-Hariri returned to Beirut on Tuesday for the first time since he resigned as Lebanon's prime minister in a broadcast from Saudi Arabia and plunged his country into political crisis.