Authorities in Bahrain have confirmed that Saraya al-Ashtar, or al-Ashtar Brigades, the group that claimed a drone attack in Israel “operates outside the kingdom” and has previously been classified “as a terrorist organisation”, Al Jazeera reports.

State media quoted Mohammed al-Abbasi, the official spokesman for the National Communication Centre, as saying that several other countries, including the United States and the United Kingdom, had also designated al-Ashtar Brigades as such.