Human rights sources say employee at National Institute for Human Rights was absent for 7 months and paid over 17,000 dinars in salary form despite his absence.

Police in Bahrain on Wednesday clashed with protesters supporting a top Shiite cleric who has been stripped of his citizenship and is on trial in the Sunni-ruled kingdom, activists said.

Police in Bahrain briefly clashed with residents of a besieged town that is home to a Shiite cleric on Wednesday, arresting at least two youths before withdrawing from the area, witnesses and activists said.

Member of the Qatari Al-Jazeera New Network said that killing the Russian Ambassador in Turkey Andrey Karlov in a shooting inside an art gallery in Ankara is a “humane reflex”.

Bahrain’s Cassation Court upheld a verdict ruling the 2 year and 1 month imprisonment against activist Ibrahim Karimi, for running an account on Twitter.

Authorities in Kuwait say four Kuwaitis detained in Iran were released to the emirate's embassy in Tehran and soon will be returning home, the Associated Press reported.

A Jordanian court on Tuesday sentenced to death an extremist man accused of killing Jordanian writer Nahed Hattar, according to AFP.

Heavily armed forces raided Diraz village where thousands of Bahrainis have been protesting since 6 months outside the house of the spiritual leader of Shia majority Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim.

Bahraini security forces clashed with supporters of the country's Shi'ite Muslim spiritual leader near his home on Wednesday, activists said.

Social media activists published photos showing thousands of citizens outside the house of the spiritual leader of Shia majority Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim.

Heavily armed forces raided Diraz village where thousands of Bahrainis have been protesting since 6 months outside the house of the spiritual leader of Shia majority Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim.

It took me seven hours to read all the chapters of the novel “Jaw”. Indeed, I re-lived the agony of this story, from beginning to end.

A Saudi-led Arab coalition will halt its use of British-made cluster munitions in Yemen, the Saudi government said on Monday, after 20 months of war in which thousands of civilians have been killed and injured in air strikes.

Trainees in the Municipal Affairs, known as the “1912 list”, will know their career future after 10 days, on whether they will remain in their current jobs or their file will be referred to the department of employment in the Ministry of Labor and Social Development as unemployed

Investcorp Bank has agreed to sell its stake in cybersecurity company Optiv Security Inc to private equity firm KKR & Co, the Bahrain-based private equity investor said in a bourse statement Tuesday.

The Al-Wasat local newspaper said that the residents of Diraz village resorted to nearby villages after the authorities had prevented the drinking water trucks from entering the village to supply it with water.

The Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) said that the Bahraini authorities have isolated two men from the outside world since about 3 months.

MEPs called on Federica Mogherini, High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, to take rapid actions to put an end to human rights violations in Bahrain.

The Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) recorded 22 arbitrary arrests, including 5 children between 12-18 December, adding that none of the arrested was released.

Bahrain condemned on Monday (December 19, 2016) in the strongest terms the armed attack on the Ambassador of the Russian Federation to the Republic of Turkey and led to his death, stressing that “the terrorist act is a serious crime aimed at damaging relations between countries”.