King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa ordered on Monday (October 30, 2017) imposing visas on visitors from Qatar, including Qatari nationals.

The Russian President Vladimir Putin will make a working visit to Tehran on November 1, 2017 to attend a trilateral meeting with President of Iran Hassan Rouhani and President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev.

An Iraqi military delegation is preparing to take control of the Kurdistan region border with Syria, an Iraqi military statement said on Tuesday.

Batelco announced that it has achieved profit of BD25.2M (US$66.8M) until third quarter of 2017 .The Group has maintained stable revenues with increases over the previous quarter and over Q3 2016

The Bahraini authorities deported today (Tuesday, October 31, 2017) morning citizen Ibrahim Karimi after serving his prison term sentence.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) condemned on Monday (October 30, 2017) the sentence against three relatives of Bahraini activist, and described it as “collective punishment”.

Millions of Yemenis face a "desperate" health situation on top of the ravages of war, the humanitarian group Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said Monday.

Head of the National Institute for Human Rights (NIHR) Saeed Mohammed Al-Faihani, was appointed by decree as an ambassador at the Foreign Ministry’s General Office, which means he has been dismissed from his former post as head of the NIHR.

The United States on Monday commended former Iraqi-Kurdish president Massud Barzani’s decision to step down, pledging to work closely with his nephew and prime minister Nechirvan Barzani.

A Bahrain court sentenced three family members of a prominent activist to jail terms on weapons charges on Monday, rights group the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy (BIRD) said and accused authorities of using torture to extract confessions.

Qatar has agreed to strengthen counter-terrorism cooperation with the United States to crack down on illicit financing of militant groups, a joint Qatari-U.S. statement said on Monday following a visit by U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.

Iran will reopen all its border crossings with Iraq’s Kurdistan region in the coming days, lifting restrictions imposed after last month’s Kurdish vote in favor of independence, its chief of staff said on Monday.

Kuwait’s ruling emir accepted the resignation of the prime minister and his cabinet on Monday, state news agency KUNA reported, asking them to continue important duties until a new cabinet is sworn in.

Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, the Crown Prince, Deputy Supreme Commander and First Deputy Prime Minister, issued edict 34/2017 appointing new directors for the office of the first deputy prime minister.

Iraqi government forces and Kurdish Peshmerga fighters reached an agreement on Sunday to deploy Iraqi Federal Police forces to a key border crossing with Turkey in the country’s north.

The Emir of Qatar, Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, said that the countries imposing the blockade on Qatar want to change the regime in his country, referring to the countries that cut off relations with Doha in June 2017.

A Bahraini court issued on Monday (October 30, 2017) life prison sentence against 7 defendants and revoked their citizenships over joining “Al-Basta Group”.

The families of martyrs in Bahrain expressed their solidarity with the Secretary General of Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society, Sheikh Ali Salman, demanding the authorities to release him immediately.

Human rights activist Zeinab Al-Khamis said that detainee Yasser Al-Mo'men’s hunger strike entered its fourth consecutive day in protest against his deprivation from treatment at Dry Dock Prison.

Human rights activists said that the authorities refused to release prisoner of conscience Ibrahim Karimi, who was stripped of his citizenship, after serving his prison term, as he was transferred to the prison of nationality and passports and residence affairs as an introduction to transfer him to Bahrain International Airport to forcibly deport him.