Bahrain’s Judicial Committee for the Settlement of Stalled Real Estate Projects, has announced that the “Amwaj Gateway” development project will be auctioned publicly. The Committee said that the decision to offer the “Amwaj Gateway” project for auction came after exhausting all possibilities for a cordial settlement as per the procedures stipulated by decree law 66 for 2014, and was made following extensive consultation with developers and stakeholders.

At least 35 people were killed in air strikes that hit a small hotel near a Houthi-run checkpoint north of the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Wednesday, a local medic and Houthi's television station.

Senior U.S. officials including presidential adviser Jared Kushner have met with leaders in Saudi Arabia and Qatar to discuss the peace process between the Israelis and Palestinians, the state news agencies of the two Gulf countries said late on Tuesday.

A row over access for Qataris to Islam's annual haj pilgrimage is further poisoning relations between their country and Saudi Arabia and aggravating a wider diplomatic rift with other Arab powers.

Activists on social media said that Jaw Prison police attacked on Tuesday night (August 22, 2017) detainees in building 14 and transferred some of them to solitary confinement for practicing Shiite religious rituals.

State-run Bahrain Petroleum Co (Bapco) will meet a consortium led by France's Technip for further talks over the planned expansion of Bahrain's only oil refinery, sources close to the matter told Reuters.

The International Center for Supporting Rights and Freedoms (ICSRF) demanded the Bahraini authorities to probe into the violations committed in Dry Dock Prison (pre-trial detention), particularly “ward 1”.

Three Bahraini human rights groups accused the Gulf Arab monarchy's National Security Agency on Tuesday of systematic use of torture, and a security official said it would investigate their allegations.

The Fourth High Criminal Court decided to postpone a case that included 60 suspects within 4 women among them to October 3. The authorities accuse the defendants of smuggling prisoners from Jaw Central Prison and establishing a terrorist group.

Iraqi forces breached on Tuesday the city limits of Tal Afar, an Islamic State stronghold west of Mosul, military authorities said.

Influential Iraqi Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr's visit to Saudi Arabia at the end of July signalled the Gulf Sunni powerhouse's ambition to distance its Iranian foe from policy-making in Baghdad.

Iran can resume high-level uranium enrichment within five days if the United States tears up the nuclear deal, the head of its Atomic Energy Organisation said Tuesday.

US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis arrived in Iraq on Tuesday, just days after the start of an offensive to take back the city of Tal Afar, to speak with Iraqi leaders about the next steps in the fight against Islamic State.

Qatar has criticised an offer by Saudi Arabia to convey Qataris to the haj pilgrimage on the kingdom's national carrier, Saudi Arabia Airlines, rather than allowing Qatar's airline or others to fly them to the Islamic rite in Mecca.

The Bahraini security authorities released on Monday (August 21, 2017) youth Mahmoud Hussein (Al-Diwani), from Ma’ameer, after serving his 7-year jail term over political cases.

The General Directorate of Traffic said that a truck driver was arrested for violating the traffic rules and speed limit of the road.

Saudi Arabia plans to transfer ownership of all its airports to its main sovereign wealth fund, the Public Investment Fund, as part of a drive to privatize them, a senior aviation official said on Monday.

Three human rights organizations issued an extensive report on the violations committed by the Bahraini National Security Agency (NSA).

Finance Ministry Undersecretary Aref Khamis denied on Monday (August 21, 2017) any plans to issue a decision to increase the prices of flour.

Bahrain may need to raise its market interest rates to protect its currency and must refrain from having its central bank lend money to cover the government's budget deficit, the International Monetary Fund said on Monday.