Bahrain's Ministry of Interior initiated a criminal investigation into alleged illegal content posted by the country's main opposition group, a-Wefaq National Islamic Society.
Protests were held in the Bahraini island city of Sitra against an agreement signed between the kingdom and Great Britain to establish a new military base in the Persian Gulf state.
A Bahrain court, actining in a suit brought by the Ministry of Justice, ordered the country's main Shi'ite opposition group al-Wefaq to suspend all activities.
Sh'iite cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr was convicted of sedition and other charges in Saudi Arabia and sentenced to death—posing greater sectarian tensions in the Gulf states.
Rights activist Nabeel Rajab faces criminal charges over his tweets that claimed Bahrain's security institutions were the first incubators for extremist ideology.
Warplanes flying from the USS George HW Bush carried out the first US air-strikes against ISIS targets in Syria, with planes from five Arab countries also participating in the raids.
Independent UN rights experts called on the government of Bahrain to release detained human rights activist Maryam al-Khawaja due to the absence of evidence against her.
Bahrain's Ministry of Justice filed a suit seeking to suspend all activities of the main Shi'ite opposition group, whose leaders were accused of an illegal meeting with a US diplomat.
In addition to the naval face-off over a global oil outlet, the Persian Gulf has seen escalating militarization by international forces in the guise of narcotics enforcement.
Bahraini authorities arrested two former Guantánamo detainees as they attempted to cross in from Saudi Arabia. They are charged with plotting an attack in Bahrain.
The lawyer representing a Bahraini blogger held by authorities has been detained himself days after alleging his client had been tortured while in police custody.
A Bahraini high criminal court acquitted two police officers on trial for the torture of six Shi’iite doctors during the uprising against the Sunni regime in 2011.
