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13 August 2018

The U.S. State Department announced that it "designated Qassim Abdullah Ali Ahmed... as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT)". Ahmed was described as "an Iran-based leader of al-Ashtar Brigades (AAB)... that seeks to overthrow the Bahraini government". 

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