The American National Interest website considered that the Royal Bahraini Air Force will become the first operator of the most advanced and capable version of F-16 ever designed. Websites said that the $1.2 billion contract to buy fighters came to allow Bahrain keep pace with other regional competitors such Qatar.

Bahrain Medical Society refused the doctors’ approach to establish another entity representing them and said in a statement “as an only and official representative to all doctors, it is always ready to adopt their cases and visions”.

American members from Ministry of Justice and FBI office are training security apparatus in Bahrain on what they called “fighting terrorism”.

The Bahraini authorities arrested on Monday (August 27, 2018) Mohammad Khatem after protesting in Manama demanding to be reinstated.

Bahrain plans to seek bids to build a metro railway system in the fourth quarter of 2019, the newspaper Al-Ayam reported on its website on Monday, citing a tr

Ministry of Foreign Affairs dismissed the news that Minister Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa insulted China at his Majlis meeting on Sunday (August 26, 2018).

A new batch of 7600 students have been admitted to the University of Bahrain for the academic year 2018-2019. According to the university president Riadh Youssef Hamza., the number of freshmen admitted to the University of Bahrain has increased this year by 26%.

A sports website covered the news of the hunger strike launched by the Bahraini detained athlete, Jiu-Jitsu medalist, Mohammad Mirza, in solidarity with a fellow prisoner and opposition leader Hasan Mushaima.

The British Independent newspaper said that Bahraini activist Ali Mushaima who has been on hunger strike for four weeks to protest against the Bahraini government's treatment of his imprisoned father has asked Britain's Queen for help.

The prominent Bahraini imprisoned dissident Hasan Mushaima said in a phone call he made with his son Ali Mushaima, on Sunday (August 19, 2018), that orders to harass him and harass political prisoners started with the appointment of the new prison administration and that he believes that these orders are from “orders from above”, in a reference to the senior leaders in the authority.

The Bahraini security authorities arrested a youth, who was injured in Diraz attack in May 2017, at a checkpoint.

King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa ordered Royal Charity Organization (RCO) to “prepare and send relief materials and providing assistance to affected Indians.”

Activist Ibtisam Al-Saegh issued an urgent appeal from a mother of a Bahraini detainee suffering from Sickle Cell Disease, in which she demanded revealing the fate of her son and allowing her to meet him after she lost contact with him 13 days ago, after being transferred to the recovery room.

An official in the National Committee for the Evaluation of Academic Qualifications affiliated with the Ministry of Education said that "procedures for the examination of scientific certificates and qualifications are to begin immediately after Eid holiday through a specialized committee."

10 human rights organizations, including Amnesty International and Index on Censorship, issued a statement in which they said that the Bahraini human rights mechanisms have largely failed to properly address concerns raised on behalf of Hassan Mushaima, stressing that "his life remains at risk".

Responding to press statements of Ministry of Education in which it stressed that it had referred the certificates' fakers to the Public Prosecution, the Prosecution said that it has not received any notifications regarding the issue of fake academic degrees.

President of Bahrain Society of Engineers Dheya Tawfiqi said that the society has put an urgent mechanism to study and review the university certificates and qualifications of about 2200 members registered in the society.

The Working Group on Arbitrary Detention in the UN considered the deprivation of liberty of Nabeel Rajab, in contravention of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and due to discrimination based on political or other opinion and on his position as a leading human rights defender

Nabeel Rajab sent a letter from his prison in Jaw Central Prison in which he congratulated people on Eid Al-Adha. He said in a letter he published on his own Twitter account on Tuesday (August 21, 2018) "I apologize to my family and my daughter for not being able to spend this happy day with them. This wasn't my choice."

An Egyptian dancer, holder of Bahraini passport, candidate for Bahraini elections said that she filed a complaint to the Bahraini Public Prosecutor against what she described as a “vicious media campaign”