A Bahraini court fined Tuesday (February 7, 2017) Bahraini cleric Sheikh Bashar al-A’li with 50 Bahraini Dinars on charges of insulting the Council of Representatives.

Bahrain’s top court rejected Monday an appeal by the country’s main opposition group Al-Wefaq against its dissolution over terrorism-related charges, a judicial source said.

Kuwait's information and youth minister submitted his resignation Monday, two days before he was scheduled to face a confidence vote over a sports ban, a government source and parliamentarians said.

A man tried to set himself alight with gasoline beside the Kaaba, the black-clad building towards which the world's Muslims face to pray, inside Mecca's Grand Mosque late on Monday but was arrested before he could do so, police in Saudi Arabia said.

Bahrain Defence Force (BDF) Commander-in-Chief Marshal Khalifa bin Ahmed Al Khalifa paid a visit to the parliament on Monday (February 6, 2017) where he met members from Council of Representatives and Shura to discuss the constitutional approach which gives broader powers to the military judiciary allowing it to try civilians.

Council of Representatives Speaker Ahmad Al-Mulla said Monday that the constitutional approach suggested by King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa will be followed by an amendment on the military penal code.

ISIS-affiliated “Twitter” accounts reported that former Bahraini lieutenant at the Ministry of Interior, Mohammad Isa Al-Binali, was killed late last year (2016) while in ISIS lines.

Detainees at the Dry Dock detention center complained Monday that the prison administration confiscated all their clothes, and left only 3 outfits for each detainee. This comes as the weather in Bahrain sees a fall in temperature.

Bahrain scholars called Monday (February 6, 2017) for staging mall rallies on the 7th anniversary of the Bahraini revolution. They dubbed February 14 “the immortal history and bright page of glory in the record of this great nation.”

Saudi Sabq Online Newspaper reported that the Al Arab news channel has shut down permanently, after a series of failures the channels faced after its broadcast was stopped in Bahrain, 1 day after its launch in February 2015.

A bomb exploded on a main street near the Bahraini capital Sunday, causing no casualties in what the government described as a "terrorist" act.

Bahrain’s High Appeals Court upheld a verdict acquitting a suspect from the charge of acquiring “TNT” explosives and others, for a terrorist aim.

Bahrain’s Court of Cassation turned down on Monday (February 6, 2017) an appeal on verdict to dissolve Ulama Islamic Council; highest Shiite religious authority in Bahrain.

The Kuwaiti appeals court overruled a verdict issued by the first-instance court acquitting the Secretary General of the "Islamic Alliance", prominent Shiite cleric Sheikh Hussein Al-Maatouk, and fined him 20.000 Kuwaiti Dinar, after convicting him of “circulating false information and violating the national unity”.

Bahrain’s Court of Cassation rejected on Monday (February 6, 2017) request to halt liquidation of Al-Wefaq Society, Bahrain’s largest opposition society, according to lawyer Al-Shamlawi.

The British “The Times” newspaper said that “The Foreign Office has been accused of trying to cover up its funding of a program to train the Bahraini police in crowd control techniques, including the use of water cannon and dogs.”

Bahrain Defence Force Commander-in-Chief Khalifa bin Ahmed Al Khalifa met on Sunday (February 5, 2017) Fifth Fleet Commander Admiral Kevin Donegan and US Ambassador to Bahrain, William V. Roebuck.

Over 20 human rights figures and organizations sent letter to British Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs urging him to call on Bahrain to release Nabeel Rajab.

A bomb exploded on a main thoroughfare on the outskirts of the Bahraini capital Manama on Sunday damaged several cars but caused no injuries, in what the interior ministry described as a "terrorist" act.

Bahrain’s Parliament Speaker Ahmed bin Ibrahim Al-Mulla said parliament will hold meeting on Monday with BDF Commander-in-Chief to discuss constitutional amendment suggested by the King.