MANAMA, Bahrain: Bahrain’s interior ministry says a homemade bomb has exploded just outside the capital, Manama, wounding a policeman.<\/p>\n
The ministry says the blast happened Friday in the village of Daih. The same area was the scene of a bomb attack in March that killed three policemen.<\/p>\n
An investigation into the blast is ongoing.<\/p>\n
Bahrain<\/a>\u00a0is an island nation in the\u00a0Persian Gulf<\/a>\u00a0that is home to the\u00a0U.S.<\/a>\u00a0navy’s Fifth Fleet. It has faced three years of unrest following an uprising led by its Shia Muslim community demanding greater rights from the Sunni monarchy.<\/p>\n Anti-government elements increasingly have been using homemade bombs against security forces.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" MANAMA, Bahrain: Bahrain’s interior ministry says a homemade bomb has exploded just outside the capital, Manama, wounding a policeman. The ministry says the blast happened Friday in the village of Daih. The same area was the scene of a bomb attack in March that killed three policemen. An investigation into the blast is ongoing. Bahrain\u00a0is …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8517,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,53],"tags":[54,493,349,494,163],"class_list":["post-8516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news-and-analysis","category-world-news","tag-bahrain-2","tag-explosion","tag-middle-east-2","tag-shia-muslim","tag-ticker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8518,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8516\/revisions\/8518"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}