DUBAI: Bahraini authorities said yesterday they have seized a boat smuggling explosives made in Iran and Syria into the kingdom, which quashed a Shia-led uprising  in 2011. The boat, which had two Bahrainis aboard, was stopped over the weekend at 3.7 kilometres off the archipelago’s coast, public security chief  Major-General Tareq Al Hasan said. He said it had been tracked over a distance of 218 kilometres northeast of the kingdom. “Fifty hand grenades made in Iran,” Read more [...]

The old order changeth yielding place to new. We all welcome the New Year with high hopes for betterment - both in personal and professional lives. We make strong and solemn resolutions on the New Year Eve, which help us move forward, if not fully, atleast partially. Honestly, residents of Bahrain have been passing through tough and turbulent times during the last three years. The government has been trying its best to counter terrorism, violence, vandalism and unfair protests. These have been Read more [...]

MANAMA: Bahrain has scored a major victory in the fight against terror with the seizure of a huge weapons stash and the arrests of wanted fugitives attempting to flee the country. Seventeen people have been detained in a massive anti-terrorism operation on Saturday and Sunday, in which police confiscated large amounts of weapons and bomb-making material. Iranian-made explosives, Syrian bomb detonators, Kalashnikovs, C-4 explosives, Claymores, hand grenades, a PK machine gun, circuit boards for Read more [...]