In Bahrain Mirror File (Two Decades in Darkness), former MP Matar Matar said “What is the value of any constitutional document if the UAE is the one that controls the national airport, the US controls the fifth fleet, while Saudi Arabia supplies Bahrain with oil for refining and controls the arrival of more than 80% of Bahrain's visitors through the causeway?"

King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa issued 3 royal decrees restructuring Ministry of Information Affairs, Ministry of Transportation and Telecommunications and National Oil and Gas Authority.

King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa issued Decree 90/2019 restructuring the General Organization for Social Insurance board of directors.

Despite their high cost, it seemed like good news to find, while reviewing the final report of the state for 2018, there are still unnaturalized soldiers in the Bahrain Defence Force, in a country that has insanely naturalized tens of thousands of foreigners for political purposes.

King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa attended the opening of the second term of Parliament in a show similar to those we see in television shows, portraying how a royal convoy arrives in ancient times in Europe.

King Hamad bin Isa issued royal decree calling on the Shura Council and parliament to convene.

King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa issued a number of royal decrees restructuring the Social Insurance Organization, Education and Training Quality Authority and Institute of Public Administration.

King Hamad issued royal decrees appointing Salah Al-Malki as Ambassador of Bahrain to Kuwait residing in Baghdad and Naser Al-Balooshi as Ambassador of Bahrain to Italy. He also issued royal decree appointing Hesham bin Mohammed Al-Jowder as ambassador in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs court.

King Hamad returned to Bahrain after spending some hours in Jeddah during which he met his Saudi counterpart King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud.

King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa issued 5 royal decrees appointing 9 undersecretaries and assistant undersecretaries in 5 government institutions.

Bahrain announced on Monday that it will join a US-led maritime coalition to counter Iranian threats to freedom of navigation in the Arabian Gulf. Bahrain, which hosts the US Navy's 5th Fleet, is the first Arabian Gulf country to officially join the coalition.

India announced that the Prime Minister Narendra Modi would pay a state visit to the Kingdom of Bahrain from August 24-25 in the first ever Prime Ministerial visit from India to Bahrain.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson confirmed in a phone call with King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa UK's commitment to the Iran nuclear deal.

King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa issued 4 decrees (50), (51), (52) and (53) for 2019.

On July 14, Al-Jazeera channel broadcast a new episode of its investigative program “What's Hidden is Worse” entitled “Players with Fire”, through which it highlighted two issues related to Bahrain. The first is the Bahraini authorities’ narrative that the protesters at the Pearl [Lualua] Roundabout in 2011 were armed, and the second is regarding the supposed cooperation between the Bahraini security authorities and citizens with jihadist ideology who have links with Al-Qaeda.

You have stained your hands with our blood to the extent that we hate the sight or mention of your name. You have made us fall in despair, not from a change in our conditions, which is deemed a sinful form of despair, but despair of expecting anything good from your dismal face. Your face doesn’t bode goodness or exude even a false ray of hope. How dark and tyrannical you are!

Hundreds of citizens took to the streets in different areas across Bahrain on Friday (July 26, 2019) in protest against the imminent execution of Ahmad Al-Malali and Ali Al-Arab.

The Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society issued a national appeal to stop the implementation of executions against Ali Al-Arab and Ahmad Al-Malali.

Ruling family representatives in Bahrain and people close to the family always say that the Bahraini opposition wants to copy the Iraqi example, in reference to the Shiite progress on one hand and security chaos on the other hand, after the ousting of Saddam Hussein’s regime.

The official gazette published on June 27, 2019 a bill decree to amend some of the citizenship revocation laws for the year 1963, which includes amendments on the revocation of the citizenships of Bahrainis.