Bahrain’s Ministry of Interior said that the one-stop crossing on the private lane of the King Fahad Causeway that links Bahrain to Saudi Arabia is to be enforced from March 6 as part of a three-month experimental phase.

Iran has sent a delegation to Saudi Arabia for talks on Iranians attending haj, state television reported on Wednesday, after Tehran boycotted the Muslim pilgrimage last year.

The UK-based daily the Guardian said, “The global transfer of major weapons systems rose over the past five years to the highest volume since the end of the cold war as the Middle East nearly doubled its imports, according to an annual report on arms sales.”

Gulf Arab states are poised to continue to spend billions of dollars on defence despite low oil prices causing severe budget deficits forcing Gulf States to introduce austerity measures and cut spending.

Saudi Arabia has broken up four Islamic State cells suspected of providing shelter to wanted militants and recruiting fighters, the Interior Ministry said on Thursday, according to Saudi state television.

Warplanes of the Saudi-led coalition struck a house north of Yemen's capital on Wednesday where mourners had gathered to offer condolences after a woman died, residents said, killing nine women and one child and injuring dozens.

Bahraini Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa and Saudi Crown Prince, Interior Minister Mohammad bin Nayef Al Saud, discussed in Riyadh economic cooperation between countries, and potential facilities for investors’ procedures.

The official account concerned in publishing the news of Bahraini Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa said that the CP left on Wednesday (February 15, 2017) to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to meet the Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz.

U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration is considering a proposal that could lead to potentially designating Iran’s powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organization, according to U.S. officials familiar with the matter.

The American the Washington Times newspaper said “the Trump administration is poised to move quickly to approve major weapons packages for Saudi Arabia and Bahrain that President Obama blocked during his final months in office over human rights concerns in both nations, U.S. officials and congressional sources say.”

A man tried to set himself alight with gasoline beside the Kaaba, the black-clad building towards which the world's Muslims face to pray, inside Mecca's Grand Mosque late on Monday but was arrested before he could do so, police in Saudi Arabia said.

Saudi Sabq Online Newspaper reported that the Al Arab news channel has shut down permanently, after a series of failures the channels faced after its broadcast was stopped in Bahrain, 1 day after its launch in February 2015.

Bahraini Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, met US Ambassador William Roebuck. The Crown Prince said Bahrain is looking forward to strengthening its strategic ties with the United States of America and the extended historic cooperation.

Saudi Arabia confirmed on Monday (January 30, 2017) that Yemeni forces attacked a Saudi frigate in west of the port of Hodeid.

The Saudi authorities began the process of demolishing the historic Al-Masora neighborhood in the town of Awamiyah in Qatif. The neighborhood dates back to 400 years and is resided by about 2000 people.

Multi-million contracts were signed today to construct 1265 units type D11 as part of Al-Ramli housing project. The Ministry of Housing signed the construction contracts with the Saudi Development Fund (SDF).

The Pentagon announced on Monday that the United States would sell Saudi Arabia and Kuwait defense equipment, including monitoring blimps to Riyadh, in a bid to enhance US-Gulf alliances.

Saudi Arabia on Monday warned organizations in the kingdom to be on the alert for the Shamoon virus, which cripples computers by wiping their disks, as the labor ministry said it had been attacked and a chemicals firm reported a network disruption.

Two suspected militants blew themselves up following a confrontation with security forces in Saudi Arabia's second city of Jeddah on Saturday, Saudi media reported.

Saudi Arabia's advisory Shura Council will study a proposal next week to impose a 6 percent levy on expatriate remittances, the Saudi Gazette newspaper said on Thursday, a measure which could help reduce the Gulf state's large budget deficit.