Saudi Arabia's highest religious body, the Council of Senior Scholars, welcomed the choice of Mohammed bin Salman as crown prince, the Saudi Press Agency said on Wednesday.

Saudi Arabia's King Salman has called for a public pledging of allegiance in Mecca on Wednesday to Prince Mohammed bin Salman who has been promoted to crown prince, Saudi-owned channel al-Arabiya said on Wednesday.

Iranian state media on Wednesday called the appointment of Mohammed Bin Salman to the position of crown prince and successor to Saudi Arabia's King Salman as a "soft coup".

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef has been relieved of his post and replaced by Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, a royal decree said on Wednesday, in a promotion for King Salman's 31-year-old son that confirms him as next ruler of the kingdom.

The Saudi journalist and host at Qatar’s Al-Jazeera Channel, announced his resignation.

Qatar's attorney general said on Tuesday his country has evidence that the hacking of Qatar's state news agency was linked to countries that have severed ties with Doha.

The Bahraini security authorities released on Tuesday (June 20, 2017) prominent Shiite cleric Sheikh Fadhel Al-Zaki after around one year of imprisonment.

The Public Prosecution decided on Tuesday (June 20, 2017) to arrest Shiite cleric Sheikh Hussein, son of Sheikh Ali Al-Sitri, for a week pending investigation.

Bahrain’s Ministry of Interior said that the initial investigations showed that martyr Nabeel Al-Samie died as a result of “bomb blast”.

It has been reported that the father of primary student, whose grades were changed to become the first on the honor’s list, is the daughter of an official in the quality assurance authority, which monitors the MoE, and its affiliated schools.

The Bahraini government reduced the allowances of many items listed under the “recurrent expenses” section in the state budget for the years 2017 and 2018, especially in the financial allocations of next year (2018).

The IBT website said that Qatari soldiers would no longer be a part of the anti-terrorism fight in Bahrain. The Bahrain government has ordered Qatari troops serving with the U.S. Naval Forces Central Command (Navcent) to leave the country within two days.

Bahrain has arrested several suspects in connection with an explosion in the village of a Shi'ite Muslim spiritual leader, the Ministry of Interior said on Twitter on Tuesday.

Iraq's army said it encircled Islamic State's stronghold in the Old City of Mosul on Tuesday after taking over an area to the north of the densely populated historic district.

Qatari Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani said on Monday that he plans to travel to the United States next week to discuss the impact of a rift with Gulf Arab states on its economy and on the fight against terrorism.

Barclays (BARC.L) and four former top executives were charged with fraud on Tuesday over undisclosed payments to Qatari investors as part of a 12 billion pound ($15 billion) emergency fundraising during the financial crisis in 2008.

Qatar will not negotiate with its neighbors to resolve the Gulf dispute unless they first lift the trade and travel boycott they imposed two weeks ago, its foreign minister said, but added Doha still believed a solution was possible.

Emirates Writers Union banned its members from dealing with any Qatari organization or participating in any activity organized or financed by Qatar.

Two years after launching headfirst into a conflict in Yemen that has no end in sight, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have astonished the world again, this time with a severe boycott of neighboring Qatar.

Information reported that the Bahraini government tried to impose restrictions on the Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights delegation that was supposed to visit Bahrain last week.