The Bahraini public prosecution office charged four activists with “illegal assembly” after interrogating the activists in the authorities’ latest campaign launched against rights defenders in Bahrain.

Number of Bahraini women working in the private sector reached 30,284, official statistics revealed. The jobs these women occupy are divided into 10 categories, including finance and accounting, education, construction and contracting, transport and services, IT, healthcare, law among others.

Official statistics have shown a sweeping dominance of foreign workers in many job categories in Bahrain’s private sector, as they have taken over jobs in the IT, financial and accounting fields as well as hotel, transport, restaurant sectors among other jobs.

Bahrain’s Sixth High Criminal Court of Appeals adjourned the appeal of 10 out of 13 accused of the murder of a police officer in the Karbabad region until October 9, 2017 for observation and pleading by the appellants attorneys.

Human rights source revealed that some of the hunger strikers held in Bahrain's Jaw Prison, who suffer from diabetes, are at risk.

The Supreme Court of Appeals referred the murder case of policeman Mahmoud Farid, in which the first suspect is sentenced to death penalty, 7 other suspects are sentenced to life in prison and 4 others to a 10-year jail term, to the Supreme Council of Justice, after falling in a disconcertion, since one of the commission members was among the Court commission that issued the ruling in a Court of first instance.

Security authorities in Bahrain prevented the country's Shiite majority from holding their largest Friday prayers for the 61th consecutive week, by continuing to impose a siege on the town of Diraz that is resided by over 20 thousand citizens.

The Embassy of the Kingdom of Bahrain to the United Kingdom said that the Amnesty International report issued on September 7 contanied “allegations and false conclusions”, stating that in fact it has so far held 9 meetings with it, at the rate of one meeting a month, the last of which was on September 7, 2017.

Human Rights Watch on Friday condemned a "coordinated crackdown on dissent" by Saudi authorities who have arrested dozens of people including prominent clerics in the ultra-conservative kingdom.

United States Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is expected to hold a firstmeeting on the Iran nuclear deal with Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and other parties to the agreement next week at the United Nations, diplomats said on Thursday.

Qatar Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani on Thursday held talks in Turkey with the emirate's chief ally President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in his first visit abroad since the start of a diplomatic crisis with Saudi Arabia.

Iraq’s parliament voted on Thursday to remove the governor of Kirkuk from office following a request from Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, according to several lawmakers who attended the vote.

The Iranian Revolutionary Guards arrested a member of Islamic State and foiled a plan for suicide attacks, a Guards commander said on Wednesday.

Yemen’s Houthi leader Abdel-Malek al-Houthi said on Thursday his group could target Saudi oil tankers should Saudi Arabia attack Yemen’s main port at Hodeidah.

Police and spy chiefs from China to the Middle East, a Ukrainian oligarch and a former president of Panama are among the people a coalition of human rights groups wants targeted for sanctions under an expanded U.S. law aimed at curbing rights abuses and corruption worldwide.

The United States on Thursday extended some sanctions relief for Iran under the 2015 nuclear deal but said it has yet to decide whether to preserve the deal itself, the State Department said.

Forces affiliated to Ministry of Interior carried out a raid campaign on Al-Malikiya village on the early hours of Thursday (August 14, 2017). House of family of martyr Abdulrida Bu Hmayed was among the raided houses.

British MP Tom Brake raised a question to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) on whether it will ask the Bahraini government for explanations on providing adequate food and medical care as well as contacting with family members of all political prisoners, in particular Ibtisam Al-Saegh and Hajar Mansour.

King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa received at Sakhir Palace yesterday (Wednesday, September 13, 2017) the US Ambassador to Bahrain William Roebuck who introduced to him outgoing Commander of the US Naval Forces Central Command and Fifth Fleet Admiral Kevin M. Donegan and Admiral John Aquilino , the new Commander.

Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani will hold talks in Ankara on Thursday with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, an ally of Doha in its dispute with Gulf Arab neighbors.