The UK Embassy in Bahrain announced on Wednesday (November 23, 2016) that the Bahraini authorities have dropped the charges against the prominent opposition leader Ibrahim Sharif.

The Kingdom of Bahrain is in talks with lenders for an Islamic bond, or sukuk, which is expected to be issued in the first quarter of 2017, banking sources told Reuters.

A Bahraini court has sentenced six people to life in prison for targeting police by planting a bomb near the entrance to the town of Maameer in May last year, the kingdom's public prosecution office said on Wednesday.

Bahrain's foreign ministry rejected on Wednesday the findings of an Amnesty International report published this week, which said torture and other forms of ill-treatment persist in the Gulf kingdom.

A court in Bahrain sentenced six people today to life in prison after finding them guilty of involvement in a plot to kill police officers with explosives.

The US Embassy continued to follow up commemoration rites of Ashura steadily, particularly the central address delivered during the religious occasion.

Bahraini Foreign Ministry rejected the content of Amnesty International’s report which confirmed the failure of Bahrain’s official bodies in maintaining prisoner and detainee rights, especially of those who were subjected to torture.

A Bahraini court ruled life imprisonment sentences against 6 Shiite citizens, whom it accused of attempting to bomb the town of Maamir, southeast of Manama.

Editor in Chief of the Saudi “Asharq Al-Awsat” newspaper, Salman Aldosary, announced his resignation, days after the scandal of his newspaper publishing fabricated news and reports about the World Health Organization (WHO).

Iraqi Foreign Ministry Spokesperson, Ahmad Jamal, said that his country launched measures towards initiating a lawsuit in British courts against the Saudi London-based “Asharq Al-Awsat Newspaper”.

Iraqi Shiite militias were massing troops on Monday to cut remaining supply routes to Mosul, Islamic State's last major stronghold in Iraq, closing in on the road that links the Syrian and Iraqi parts of its self-declared “Caliphate”, Reuters reported.

Convoys of military vehicles loaded with Shi'ite paramilitary fighters hurtled across desert terrain in northwestern Iraq towards the Islamic State-held city of Tal Afar, chanting religious slogans and covering their faces to keep out the dust, Reuters reported.

A U.N. peace plan for Yemen seeks to deprive the country's armed Houthi movement of its missile arsenal which Yemeni security sources say includes scores and maybe even hundreds of Soviet-era ballistic missiles pointed at their foes in Saudi Arabia, Noah Browning wrote in his article for Reuters.

Iran said on Tuesday it had sent 11 metric tonnes of heavy water to Oman as part of its obligations under last year's nuclear deal with world powers, agencies reported.

The United States said on Tuesday it had issued a second license to France's Airbus to sell commercial planes to Iran Air, the company said on Tuesday.

Residents of Yemen said that twelve Yemeni civilians were killed by a Saudi-led air strike while riding in a pickup truck in the country's northwest early on Wednesday (November 23, 2016).

The Fourth High Criminal Court ruled a 3-year imprisonment verdict against a defendant, charging him with “illegal assembly” and burning tires in the town of Sitra.

The High Criminal Court of “Appeals” amended the verdict ruled against a prisoner convicted with damaging the class barrier of the visiting room. The verdict imprisonment years were decreased from 6 months to 3 months.

Bahrain’s Appeals Court adjourned (Wednesday November 23, 2016) the case of three detained Shiite clerics until January 2017.

The Fourth High Criminal Court adjourned the trial of the Shiite majority spiritual leader, Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim until December 4, to hear the defense witnesses and plea.