Saudi Arabia acknowledged its responsibility for the Sanaa massacre that claimed the lives and injured hundreds of Yemenis, according to Reuters.

(ADHRB) organization stated that the Government of Saudi Arabia still targets and prosecutes Shiite political and religious activists who speak out against the government.

Coptic Orthodox priest Royce George, engaged in the pastoral care of the Orthodox Coptic community in Bahrain, has confirmed the donation of land by King Hamad bin Isa al Khalifa for the construction of the second Coptic church in the Kingdom, Fibes reported.

A weekend attack on a funeral gathering in Yemen widely blamed on Saudi-led warplanes was "egregious," a senior U.S. official said on Friday in one of Washington's strongest condemnations of the incident.

A Saudi soldier was killed on Friday when Yemen's Houthi group attacked across the border into the kingdom's southern Jizan province, state television Al-Ekhbariya reported.

The Bahraini Fourth High Criminal Court handed down 5-year jail term to 3 suspects and one-year jail term to 2 suspects.

Iran sent two warships to the Gulf of Aden on Thursday, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported, establishing a military presence in waters off Yemen where the U.S. military launched cruise missile strikes on areas controlled by Iran-backed Houthi forces.

Human Rights Watch sent a letter to the American President Barack Obama demanding him to use his left 100 days in office to help ameliorate human rights situation in the world.

The British Newsletter website said that “A Foreign Office-paid company has been reported to an information watchdog (Reprieve) for failing to reveal details of its work in Middle Eastern prisons where torture is allegedly rife.”

Special advisor to the speaker of parliament for international affairs Hossein Amir Abdollahian stressed that his country refuses all the military solutions for the crises in the region, including Syria, Yemen and Bahrain.

The Bahraini Fourth High Criminal Court acquitted 3 suspects of charge of planting a bomb in Budai, because the court was not satisfied with the evidence presented against the 3 defendants.

The Bahraini security authorities continue to ban the Shia majority from performing the largest Friday prayer in the Imam Al-Sadiq Mosque in Diraz by preventing the Imam of prayers and worshipers from entering Diraz that has been witnessing a security siege since over 100 days.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemned Bahraini journalist and blogger Faisal Hayyat’s detention on the alleged grounds that he insulted religion in a tweet.

The Iraq-based Al-Itijah channel aired a documentary about the spiritual leader in Bahrain ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim that included testimonies of currently-detained prominent figures.

Bahraini police on Thursday fired tear gas to disperse hundreds of protesters who were trying to march on the capital from a Shiite village, witnesses said.

The Bahraini regime forces clashed on October 13, 2016) with protesters attempting to reach the Pearl (LuaLua) Roundabout, cradle of popular protests witnessed in Bahrain five years ago with the rise of the Arab Spring.

The National Democratic Action Society “Wa’ad” praised the Bahraini people and Islamic world on Ashura and said he greatest lesson learned is to adhere to national unity, confront the systematic division schemes and block the way before those who plan division between the sons of one nation.

An Egyptian newspaper reported that an attorney has filed a lawsuit to the administrative court demanding the annulment of Egyptian president Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi’s decision which grants Bahraini King Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa the same rights as Egyptians regarding ownership of lands and villas in South Sinai Governorate, for residential use.

Bahrain’s King, who continues to violate Shiite Bahrainis’ right to freely practice religious rituals, claimed that the third Shia Imam would have stood by him.

Thousands of Bahraini Muslim Shiites performed Ashura prayers in the capital Manama, despite authorities’ ban on the central prayers Shiites are accustomed to performing on the ninth day of Muharram, marking the eve of Imam Hussein bin Ali’s martyrdom. Thousands of Bahraini Muslim Shiites performed Ashura prayers in the capital Manama, despite authorities’ ban on the central prayers Shiites are accustomed to performing on the ninth day of Muharram, marking the eve of Imam Hussein bin Ali’s martyrdom.