ISIS: A maritime threat, navies taking no chance

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Even the Navies are training together in case ISIS starts threatening the seas and waterways.

ISIS: A maritime threat, navies taking no chance

Allan Jacob - Chief Reporter & Juidin Bernarrd (Reporting from Manama) / 4 November 2014

Largest naval exercises get underway in Middle East




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MARINE MAMMAL PROGRAMME: Codi, a California sea lion, shakes hands with his handler after conducting a search operation during the International Mine Countermeasures Exercise in Bahrain.

International navies are working together to keep maritime threats at bay in regional waters as the Middle East and the world grapples with the rise of terror groups like the ISIS in Syria and Iraq. The focus may be on the war against the ISIS in these battle-ravaged countries but it is possible the group could turn their eyes to the high seas, said senior naval officials in the Bahraini capital where the US Navy’s 5th Fleet is based.

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