Kuwaiti security forces have detained a suspected Islamist militant who rammed a truck believed to be carrying explosives into a car carrying five Americans, state news agency KUNA reported on Saturday.

Rebels in control of Yemen's capital accused the Saudi-led coalition fighting them of killing more than 100 people and wounding hundreds more Saturday in air strikes on a funeral in Sanaa.

The New Arab website reported that Bahraini human rights activist Nabeel Rajab must wait in legal limbo three more weeks for the verdict of his trial.

Thousands of Bahraini citizens continue to commemorate Ashura outside the house of Shiite majority spiritual leader, Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim in Diraz.

The Bahraini authorities exiled Saturday morning (October 8, 2016), member of the Ettifaq Football Club, citizen Mahmoud Khawiri.

Human Rights First urged the US government to link the proposed sale of F-16 fighter jets to Bahrain to the release of jailed Bahraini human rights defender Nabeel Rajab, who faces a verdict in court tomorrow.

A Bahraini court Thursday postponed until October 31 its verdict in the trial of prominent activist Nabeel Rajab, charged with spreading false information and posting online insults, a judicial source said.

Bahrain’s security forces continued on Friday to prevent the Shiite majority from performing the biggest Friday prayers, after they prevented the Friday prayers Imam and worshippers from entering Diraz.

Bahrain security forces banned on Friday three human rights activists from leaving the country. This comes in a series of arbitrary measures adopted against activists and opposition figures.

The Bandw website published a group of 15 caricatures in "an artistic protest against the unlawful arrest of Nabeel Rajab and the human rights violations in Bahrain."

Bahraini regime courts issued Thursday two-year imprisonment verdicts Shiite clerics, Mohammad Jawad Al-Shihabi and Sheikh Fadel Al-Zaki. Another court sentenced Sayyed Majeed Al-Mashaal, to a year imprisonment in a new case.

Prominent Shiite cleric Ayatollah Sayyed Kazem Al Haeri issued a fatwa demanding the Bahraini people to defend the Shiite majority spiritual leader, Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim.

The High Criminal Court adjourned the verdict in the case of prominent rights activist Nabeel Rajab, until October 31, 2016, in order to provide the defense with a copy of the medical reports in the case file.

The Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) expressed on the International Day of Non-Violence, marked October 2, 2016, its grave concern for the continued targeting of human rights defenders and civil society activists by the Bahraini authorities.

Bahrain's foreign reserves have more than halved since the end of 2014 as low oil prices slash the value of the country's exports, the prospectus for the kingdom's sovereign bond issue this week shows.

The “ENGLISH PEN” association called on supporters to join in its protest organized outside the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office to express solidarity with human rights activist Nabeel Rajab, and urge the British government to defend him.

The Bahraini authorities arrested on Wednesday (October 5, 2016) Shiite cleric Sayed Mohammad Mahdi Al-Ghuraifi, one month after being released.

Bahrain's Prime Minister Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa issued four edicts, appointing 8 directors in the Ministry of Interior.

Assistant Undersecretary for Hospital Affairs Waleed Al-Manea stressed that a number of people working in the emergency department in Al-Salmaniya Medical Complex submitted their resignations, explaining that the ministry asked the human resources department to recruit new employees, however, it is difficult to hire people now due to the budget.

Commander-in-Chief of the Bahrain Defence Force, Khalifa bin Ahmed Al Khalifa, received on Tuesday (October 4, 2016) Commander of the UK's Joint Forces, General Sir Chris Deverell, and his accompanying delegation in the presence of Chief of Staff, Dhiyab bin Saqr Al-Nuaimi.