The Specialized Criminal Court in Riyadh issued on Wednesday (November 30, 2016) 3 new death penalties against citizens from Tarout, in Qatif in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia.

Shamoon, the destructive computer virus that four years ago crippled tens of thousands of computers at Middle Eastern energy companies, was used two weeks ago to attack computers in Saudi Arabia, according to several U.S. cyber security firms.

Saudi authorities banned one of their citizens, writer Jamal Khashoggi from appearing on any media outlet. So will Dr. Abdulkhaleq Abdullah, a political science professor at Emirates University, be next.

Two senior U.S. senators said on Wednesday they want to amend a law allowing lawsuits against Saudi Arabia over the Sept. 11 attacks to narrow the scope of possible lawsuits.

Human Rights Watch said in a letter addressed to Barack Obama on Tuesday (November 29, 2016) that “The United States should immediately halt arms sales to Saudi Arabia following numerous unlawful coalition attacks in Yemen.”

Freedom House listed Bahrain in its annual Freedom on the Net report for 2016 among the 26 “Not Free" countries that implement tight censorship on online content.

The false news reported by Saudi Asharq Al-awsat newspaper last Sunday was a deliberate fabrication intended to incite further sectarian tension in region,

Human rights campaigners at Reprieve have accused the UK government of “outrageous” secrecy over the British training of Saudi and Bahraini police forces.

Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud received in his palace in Riyadh, Bahrain’s Prime Minister, Khalifa bin Salman and his accompanying delegation.

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”.

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.

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).

A 48-hour ceasefire ended Monday in Yemen after failing to stem violence across the country, with both sides blaming each other for deadly "violations" of the US-backed truce, AFP reported.

Bahraini Prime Minister Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa expressed Bahrain's “high appreciation of Saudi Arabia's unlimited support” offered to Bahrain.

The Saudi Crown Prince and Interior Minister Mohammed bin Nayef bin Abdulaziz Al Saud arrived in Bahrain to take part in the closing of the "Arabian Gulf Security 1" drill.

Yemeni Foreign Minister Abdel-Malek al-Mekhlafi said that his country has no knowledge of the deal announced by US Secretary of State John Kerry, announcing a Yemen ceasefire and formation of a new government.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Tuesday that Yemen's Houthi group and the Saudi-led coalition fighting it had agreed to a ceasefire in Yemen from Thursday (November 17, 2016).

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump should not scrap a nuclear deal between Iran and world powers but should take the nation to task for its "destabilizing activities" in the Middle East, said a former senior Saudi official.

Britain's Prince Charles and his wife Camilla began wrapping up their trip to Bahrain on Friday, as a leader of the island's secular opposition warned their visit could "whitewash" an ongoing crackdown on dissent.