The aluminum company “ALBA” said that its Board discussed the results report on investigations into the suspicion of legal and administrative violations committed by the “ALBA” workers’ union, and will implement and adopt immediate rectifying measures.

The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) leaders ended their 37th Summit in Manama. The closing statement did not break new ground in the “Gulf Union” file, which was heavily promoted in Gulf press during the past few days.

The Bahraini Foreign Minister Khalid bin Ahmad Al Khalifa, said that the Gulf Cooperation Council’s (GCC) relations with the United Kingdom do not reflect a decline in the US-Gulf relations.

The Islamic Republic of Iran denied all the allegations mentioned in the final statement of the 37th GCC summit that closed its work session on Wednesday (December 7, 2016) in Manama.

The Bahraini King issued a decree last week terminating Information Affairs Authority, and assigning its staff and management at the Ministry of Information Affairs.

Sanaa’s newly assigned Foreign Ministry accused the government of Yemeni president Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi and the Saudi-led coalition of opening news battlefronts.

Bahrain's high appeals court set February 16, 2017 as a date to issue its verdict in the case of 54 appellants of the 57 defendants accused of causing riots in Jaw prison on (March 10, 2015). The court had sentenced the suspects to 15 years in prison and bound them to pay 508187.970 BD.

Britain will help Gulf states "push back" against aggressive regional actions by Iran, Prime Minister Theresa May told the Gulf Cooperation Council in Bahrain on Wednesday in a televised address.

Yemen on Tuesday appeared to reject a U.N. plan to end its civil war, saying the roadmap would create a "dangerous international precedent" by legitimizing the rebellion against the country's internationally recognized government.

The United States expressed disappointment on Wednesday at the Yemeni government's reaction to a U.N.-drafted roadmap to end the country's civil war and urged it to accept the proposal as a basis to begin negotiations on a peace agreement.

The offensive against Islamic State in Mosul could take two more months, and even if the group is defeated there it will still pose a threat to Iraq and the West, the commander of the U.S.-led coalition fighting against it said.

An investigative body set up by the Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen said on Tuesday it should apologize for a deadly attack on a Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) hospital in August that the group said killed 11 people.

The “Al Asalah Salafist Society” called on the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) to consider Iran “The first strategic enemy of Islam, Arabs, and human civilization.”

The terrorist ISIS affiliation posted a short film about Bahrain, in which it called on the “Sunnis” to perform their Jihad against Shiites in Bahrain, and against the US base there.

Bahraini activists broadcasted photos on social media platforms, showing protesters burning the British flags, in a step manifesting their rejection to UK Prime Minister Theresa May’s visit to Bahrain.

The Middle East researcher at Human Rights Watch, Nicholas McGeehan, said that UK Prime Minister fired back at critics of cosy ties to Bahrain.

Social media activists circulated photos showing hundreds of people protesting outside the house of the spiritual leader of the Shia majority Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim

Bahrain’s high appeals commuted the verdict of an appellant to 5 years and refused the objection of another appellant whose verdict was already commuted to 5 years.

Local newspaper al-Wasat said that “the security authorities inspected the passports of citizens’ passports upon their arrival to Bahrain’s international airport, coming back from Iraq, where they commemorated the Arbaeen of Imam Hussein in the past few days.

The Bahraini Fourth High Criminal Court sentenced five defendants over planting hoax bomb, burning tires and assaulting policemen in Saar.