Part of Bahraini uprising of 2011 and the Iran–Saudi Arabia proxy conflict
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On 10 April 2012, a bomb attack injured seven policemen in Akr.[6]
On 5 November 2012, at least five homemade bombs exploded in the nation's capital, killing 2 Asian workers and injuring another.[7]
On 12 July 2013, a home-made bomb wounded Bahraini policemen outside the Shiite village, according to the interior ministry. State-media claimed it was "planted by terrorists" near the capital, Manama.[8]
On 15 February 2014, one policeman was killed in a bombing.[9]
On 19 April 2014, two men were killed and another injured after their car exploded. They were suspected to be militants transporting explosives.[12]
On 5 July 2014, policeman Mahmud Farid was killed in a bombing in Eker village.[13]
On 28 July 2015, a bomb killed two policemen and wounded six in Sitra in the 2015 Sitra bombing.[14]
On 30 June 2016, 1 person was killed and 3 injured after a roadside bombing. 2 people were arrested who were suspected of planting the bomb. Bahrain accused Iran's Revolutionary Guards for being behind the bombing, although this is only an accusation, and does not rule out the possibility of terrorism. U.S. Vice President Joe Biden expressed his concerns after the attack.[15] The bombing was described as a "terrorist bombing".[16]
On 1 July 2016, one woman was killed and three children injured in a bombing.[17]
On 1 January 2017, one policeman was killed and a second injured in a jailbreak conducted by four-six armed men at Jaww prison. 10 inmates convicted of terrorist offenses escaped.[18][19]
On 15 January 2017, three militants (Abbas al-Samea, Sami Mushaima and Ali al-Singace) were executed for the 3 March 2014 bombing.[20]
On 29 January 2017, a police officer in Bahrain was shot dead in an attack claimed by a Shi'ite militant group.[21]
On 18 June 2017, a member of the security forces was killed and two others were wounded after a bombing in Diraz.[22]
On 27 July 2019, two alleged militants were executed by the state on charges of terrorism. Both were allegedly involved in the January 1, 2017 killing of a prison guard that helped let 10 detainees escape, as well as the for the killings of two other police officers that month. The two were arrested in February 2017.[29]
On 15 December 2020, the United States Department of the Treasury added the Saraya Al-Mukhtar (aka. Bahraini Islamic Resistance, aka. Al-Mukhtar Brigades, etc.) to the Specially Designated Nationals list, subjecting it to economic sanctions imposed by the United States. The sanctions were imposed due to their connections with Iran.[30][31]
In November the Bahraini government says it had foiled an attempted attack by insurgents.[32]
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27 April:Al-Ashtar Brigades conducted a drone attack against the offices of an Israeli company in Eilat.[33]
^"In Bahrain, a smoldering insurgency reveals the resilience of Iran's proxy war". Washington Post. ISSN0190-8286. Retrieved 11 May 2022. Maj. Gen. Tariq al-Hassan, Bahrain's chief of public security, said that groups such as al-Ashtar Brigades and al-Mukhtar Brigades were responsible for 22 deaths and more than 3,500 injuries to policemen since 2011. The death toll is relatively low for an insurgency, but it represents a significant problem in a country of just 1.4 million people.
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