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 ...

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ALBAWABA - The U.S. Navy said a nuclear-powered guided-missile submarine was operating in the Middle East in support of the Bahrain-based U.S. Fifth Fleet. The USS Florida entered the region on ...

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 ...