US special operations forces are helping Emirati and local forces as they conduct new operations against Al-Qaeda in Yemen, the Pentagon said Friday.

Residents of Bahrain’s Bilad Al-Qadeem complained that their area has been neglected by the government, adding that there are a number of mosques prone to collapse.

Hezbollah Secretary-General Sayed Hassan Nasrallah denied existence of any cells affiliated to Hezbollah in Kuwait, which lodged formal protest, accusing the party of training and arming 21 people.

Yousef Al-Jamri confirmed that he was heading to the Office of the Inspector-General to lodge a complaint against his NSA torturers.

A Saudi man was shot dead helping evacuate residents from the town of Awamiya.

Three women and six children from the same family were killed in an air strike by the Saudi-led coalition on their home in northern Yemen on Friday.

Bahraini authorities closed the main entrance to Al-Diraz, where the country's highest Shiite religious authority, Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim resides under house arrest.

The British Vice website said that last week the British government released thousands of old files to the National Archives, where audience can now go to see them.

Responding to some of the news circulated on social media outlets at the dawn of Friday (August 4, 2017), tweeter Yousef Al-Jamri denied being arrested by security forces.

Bahraini sent video on Twitter addressing Bahrain’s King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, asking the monarch to offer him protection from the National Security Apparatus (NSA).

Oman on Wednesday announced it has taken out a $3.55 billion loan from Chinese banks to cover its budget deficit for the current fiscal year.

The Director General of Human Resources Development and Performance Management Adel Haji Ibrahim said that the personal accounts of employees on social media represent their owners only and that employees are not allowed to publish their post, job title and official contact information related to their job.

Bahraini Interior Ministry turned main entrance to town of Diraz into a “restricted area.”

Minister of Interior Rashid bin Abdullah Al Khalifa received on Thursday (August3, 2017) the new president of the Cassation Court Abdulla bin Hassan Al-Buainian on the occasion of his appointment in his new post.

Electricity and Water Affairs assigned Ernst & Young Company to do its internal auditing, after a meeting was held between the company’s officials and minister Abdulhussain Mirz

Hassan Rouhani won the endorsement of Iran's supreme leader for his second term of president on Thursday after an easy election win, pledging to open Iran to foreign trade and investment but facing internal hardline resistance and renewed U.S. antagonism.

Qatar has concluded a 5 billion euro ($5.91 billion) deal with Italy for seven navy vessels, the Qatari foreign minister said on Wednesday, part of a military cooperation agreement between the two countries.

Iran said new sanctions imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday break the terms of its nuclear deal with the United States and other world powers, and vowed an "appropriate and proportional" response.

Attacks on the Iraqi embassy and a Shi'ite mosque in Afghanistan have reinforced fears that Islamic State militants are seeking to bring the group's Middle East conflict to Central Asia, though evidence of fighters relocating from Iraq and Syria remains elusive.

Bahrain Embassy in London warned Bahraini citizens, visitors and residents in the UK to avoid walking in alleys and dark areas and to avoid carrying valuable belongings in public due to the increasing robberies and assaults using liquid substances, such as acid in different tourist attractions in London.