Observers who criticize recent U.S. and NATO interventions in the Middle East point to the U.S. Navy Fifth Fleet, based in Bahrain, as the main reason the West ignores civilian killings in the ...

Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy James Honea praised recruiters during an all-hands meeting Wednesday at the service’s ...

A MANTAS T-12 unmanned surface vessel sails alongside Royal Bahrain Naval Force Abdulrahman Al Fadhel during a joint exercise ...

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Tensions between America and Iran are at their peak. Both countries are threatening each other with war. US President Donald ...

The US already has a naval base in Bahrain, known as the Naval Support Activity (NSA) base. Its ownership was transferred from the British navy to the US forces in the 1970s after the UK’s ...

A MANTAS T-12 unmanned surface vessel sails alongside Royal Bahrain Naval Force Abdulrahman Al Fadhel during a joint exercise between U.S. 5th Fleet Command and Bahraini forces. (Mazen Mahdi/AFP ...