Saudi Arabia's foreign minister called what he said was Qatar's demand for an internationalization of the Muslim hajj pilgrimage a declaration of war against the kingdom, Saudi-owned Al Arabiya television said on Sunday, but Qatar said it never made such a call.

The four Arab countries that have cut ties with Qatar said on Sunday they were ready for talks to tackle the dispute if Doha showed willingness to deal with their demands.

Moody's Investors Service has downgraded the Government of Bahrain's long-term issuer rating to B1 from Ba2, and maintained the negative outlook.

Moody’s on Friday downgraded Oman’s and Bahrain’s long-term bond ratings, citing limited progress in addressing the nation’s vulnerabilities to the weak oil price environment

Shia Muslims in Bahrain held evening prayers at the Al-Alawiyat Mosque, which was demolished by the Bahraini authorities in 2011.

Campaign groups argue that Bahrain’s association with glamour sport is used to ‘launder’ a more wholesome image for the country.

Gulf governments have sustained their campaigns to silence peaceful critics during the first half of 2017, stated Human Rights Watch, updating an interactive website, created in November 2016, featuring targeted human rights activists.

The Bahraini Foreign Minister Khalid bin Ahmad Al Khalifa accused Qatar of fabricating 600 documentaries and media materials on Bahrain, and accused Al-Jazeera of translating forged documentaries about Bahrain in many languages, to harm the kingdom.

Bahrain Watch organization launched the “Bahrain Budget Transparency Project”, which it said would make it easier for the public to access Bahraini government data. “We are starting with a repository of state budget data for the past 20 years,” it stated.

4-year-old Bahraini child, Sayed Mojtaba Sayed Jalal, died Thursday morning (July 27, 2017) after he drowned in a swimming pool in the Malikiya area. Authorities immediately launched investigations into the matter.

he Bahraini government-affiliated National Institute for Human Rights (NIHR) praised the UK Foreign Office’s report on Human Rights and Democracy for 2016 on Bahrain. It said that the report “described Bahrain as the most advanced state in the region in human rights reforms.”

Official statistics revealed that the total amount of money paid in financial transactions for the government’s national electronic portal since the beginning of 2017, is around BD 27 million.

Saudi forces launched the dawn of Wednesday (July 26, 2017) an unprecedented attack on Awamiyah, hometown of prominent martyr Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, whom authorities executed early last year.

Bahrain Watch said that Al-Jazeera Channel was targeted on Twitter by bot army. The organization published a report on its website saying that central to the Qatar Crisis has been the existence of Al Jazeera. Right from the beginning of the crisis, which was prompted by the alleged hacking of the Qatar News Agency by the UAE, Al Jazeera has been targeted by propaganda bots on Twitter.

Bahrain’s Foreign Minister Khalid bin Ahmed bin Mohammed Al-Khalifa met his Egyptian counterpart, Sameh Shoukry, on the sidelines of the Ministerial-level meeting of the Arab League Council. The two ministers reviewed the meeting to be hosted by the Kingdom of Bahrain next Sunday for the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Bahrain, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and the Arab Republic of Egypt to discuss the developments of crisis with Qatar.

Bahraini government’s decision to shutter al-Wasat indefinitely yet again underscores regime’s on-going assault on freedom of expression and independent media.

King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa has lauded what he named “tremendous efforts and good endeavors” of King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud “that resulted in cancelling the restrictions imposed by the Israeli Occupation Forces on entry to Al-Aqsa Mosque”.

The Guardian stated that the British government approved £283m of arms sales to Saudi Arabia in the six months after a Saudi airstrike on a funeral that killed scores of people and was criticized by the UN.

At least five people have been killed in eastern Saudi Arabia in two days, activists and a family member said on Thursday, as security forces begin an operation to flush out suspected Shi'ite militants from the town of Awamiya in Qatif province.

Saudi Arabia's top court has upheld the death sentences of 14 men convicted of armed attacks, all of them from the Sunni-ruled kingdom's Shi'ite Muslim minority, a local newspaper reported on Thursday.