MANAMA: Bahrain’s Public Security Chief, Major-General Tariq Al Hassan, has said that several suspects in the Sitra terror blast have been arrested after they were identified in the investigation launched immediately after the heinous bombing.The Bahraini News Agency, BNA, quoted Hassan as saying, “such terrorist acts will not stop policemen from carrying out their duties and taking all security and legal procedures Read more [...]

<!-- Analysis A roadside bomb attack targeted a police van on July 28, in the predominately Shiite village of Sitra, south of the capital Manama, killing two police officers and wounding five others. Police attacks are nothing new in Bahrain, where the authorities have been attempting to quash Shiite protests since 2011. During the past few years, police officers have been killed in relatively unsophisticated ways, such as being Read more [...]

Baghdad, July 29 (BNA): The Iraqi Foreign Ministry condemned the terrorist blast which happened yesterday in Sitra area, in the Kingdom of Bahrain. In a press statement today, Iraqi Foreign Ministry’s Spokesperson Ahmed Jamal said that his country condemns in the strongest terms the terrorist explosion. The statement which was posted on the ministry’s website said that these criminal acts Read more [...]