The story: An Omani delegation led by Foreign Minister Sayyid Badr Albusaidi has visited Bahrain to attend the seventh Bahraini-Omani joint ministerial committee. The two sides signed several memoranda of understanding to expand commercial and social exchanges. Notably, the meeting coincided with the recent Baghdad summit that brought together regional actors—and which both Bahrain and Oman skipped.

The coverage: On Aug. 29, the Bahrain News Agency and the Omani foreign ministry published a joint statement that detailed the work of the joint ministerial committee...