The Interior Ministry of Bahrain announced on Monday (April 28, 2015) that it has arrested 28 people over charges of involvement in terrorist activities.

Bahrain Mirror: Until August 2014, Sheikh Adel Hassan Hamad, one of the pillars of the jihadi movement in Bahrain, continued to deliver his weekly sermon which was authorized by the authorities, from his pulpit at the Al-Nosf Mosque in Riffa, south of Manama. Has stated in one of his sermons delivered on Friday in 2013, "Encourage people to head for Jihad in Syria, fight the Magi of this nation, the Rafidis (Shiites) everywhere.

Bahrain Mirror: The name of Bahraini figure, Turki Al-Binali, has been mentioned in a great deal of news reports and news coverage of the advances made by ISIS in Syria and Iraq. Now, he is considered one of the most prominent Muftis in the terrorist group which declared the establishment of a “caliphate”, and one of the most influential Jihadists of the new generation. He is accused of recruiting dozens of Bahraini youth and sending them to frontlines outside the country. Some of the stages of his life are as follows:

Bahrain Mirror: In September 2014, the Saudi authorities froze the Bank accounts of a Syrian preacher living in their country, Sheikh Adnan Al-Aroor, over charges related to “funding terrorism.”