Activists said security forces killed a protester during a raid on the home village of Bahrain's Shi'ite Muslim spiritual leader on Tuesday.

Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society, largest political opposition society in Bahrain, launched an urgent appeal calling on the international community to interfere to stop the security attack, which it described as “massacre”, taking place in Bahrain now.

: Bahrain police on Tuesday opened fire on a long-running sit-in in support of a leading Shiite cleric in the Sunni-ruled Gulf state, hit by years of unrest.

Youth Mohammad Kadhem Zainuldine (39 years) martyred after receiving gunshots by the forces affiliated to the ministry of interior while raiding Diraz village, where thousands are protesting outside Sheikh Isa Qassim’s house.

Bahrain's interior ministry said it had launched a security operation on Tuesday in the home village of the country's Shi'ite Muslim spiritual leader, the site of a sit-in encampment of his followers.

Bahrain police say they’ve launched an operation targeting a town where a sit-in has been going on for months supporting a prominent Shiite cleric who had his citizenship stripped by the government.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hoped on Monday (May 22, 2017) that one day, he would be able to visit Saudi Arabia.

The first of its kind auction in Bahrain on special number plates that lasted for 2 weeks was closed on Saturday night. The auction included 30 combinations of a new series of plate numbers and was organized by Mazad Company (affiliated to Bahrain Mumtalakat Holding Company) with the participation of Arabian Auction Company.

Iranian Parliamentary Director General for International Affairs and Assistant to Parliament Speaker, Hossein Amir Abdollahian said that recent court ruling against Sheikh Isa Qassim would aggravate conditions in Bahrain.

A Bahraini court on Sunday sentenced revered Shiite cleric Isa Qassim to a suspended one-year jail term for illegal fundraising and money laundering, a judicial source said.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Sunday criticized U.S. President Donald Trump for sealing an arms deal and other investments worth hundreds of billions of dollars with Saudi Arabia, Tehran's arch-rival in the Middle East.

Saudi energy minister Khalid al-Falih will meet with his Iraqi counterpart in Baghdad on Monday as the top oil producer seeks to convince others to extend output cuts for a further nine months ahead of an OPEC meeting on Thursday.

A senior United Arab Emirates official said on Sunday the re-election of moderate Iranian President Hassan Rouhani could be a chance for Tehran to reset "its troubled relations" with its neighbors.

A senior Hezbollah official recently blacklisted by Washington and Riyadh called the U.S. administration "mentally impeded and crazy" on Sunday as President Donald Trump visited Saudi Arabia, in the group's latest verbal attack on the United States.

Saudi Arabia is taking new steps to counter the messages of Islamic State and other Islamist militant groups online, a senior Saudi official said on Saturday, as U.S. President Donald Trump began a visit to the kingdom.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday Washington's relations with Bahrain were set to improve, after meeting with the king of the Gulf Arab state during a visit to Saudi Arabia.

US President Donald Trump on Sunday urged Muslim leaders to take a stand against violence committed in the name of religion, describing the struggle against extremism as a "battle between good and evil".

Bahrain witnessed today Sunday many angry protests denouncing the court’s sentence issued against religious leader Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim, over charges of managing the Shiite religious Khums ritual.

Information reported that the Ministry of Interior summoned on Sunday the heads of Diraz-based obsequies, and asked them to intervene to disperse the sit-in crowd outside the house of Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim.

Hezbollah denounced on Sunday (May 21, 2017) the sentence against the senior religious leader in Bahrain, Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim.