Saudi Mosque Blast

Militants escalated their campaign against Saudi Arabia's ruling Al Saud family with three suicide attacks in a single day, in the biggest challenge to the kingdom's internal security since it crushed an al-Qaida insurgency a decade ago.

At least three people were killed in the blast outside the Prophet's Mosque in Medina in Saudi Arabia on Monday, including a suicide bomber and two security officers, Saudi-owned al-Arabiya television reported.

A suicide blast struck Monday in Saudi Arabia outside one of Islam's holiest sites, the Prophet's Mosque in Medina, a Saudi-owned television channel reported.

State-linked Saudi news sites are reporting that a suicide bomber has carried out an attack near a US diplomatic site in the Red Sea city of Jeddah.

A suicide bomber blew himself up at a mosque in Najran in southern Saudi Arabia on Monday, killing at least three people and wounding several others, Saudi-owned al-Arabiya television reported.

Saudi authorities have arrested three brothers linked to a suicide bombing by a Saudi man on a Shi'ite Muslim mosque in neighboring Kuwait last month, Saudi state news agency SPA reported today.

Kuwait today identified the suicide bomber behind an attack on a Shiite mosque as a Saudi national, after a series of arrests in connection with the blast that left 26 dead.

Islamic State claimed responsibility for a bombing that killed four people at a Shi'ite Muslim mosque in eastern Saudi Arabia on Friday, the second attack claimed by the Sunni militant group in a week in the world's top oil-exporting country.

Saudi Arabia has said that the suicide bomber at the mosque attack killing 21 worshipers was a Saudi national and a member of Islamic State (IS), Saudi Press Agency reported.

A blast ripped through a Shiite mosque in eastern Saudi Arabia on Friday, authorities said, in what an activist said was a deadly suicide bombing.

Mohammed Hanif Sayyed, sentenced to death for carrying out the 2003 twin blasts in Mumbai at the instance of Laskhar-e-Toiba (LeT), was an auto rickshaw driver. Hanif (46) left for Saudi Arabia in 1992 as a catering assistant on a salary of 700 Riyal. He worked there till 1994 and returned to Mumbai. Thereafter, he was plying a rented auto ricksha...

Militants escalated their campaign against Saudi Arabia's ruling Al Saud family with three suicide attacks in a single day, in the biggest challenge to the kingdom's internal security since it crushed an al-Qaida insurgency a decade ago.

At least three people were killed in the blast outside the Prophet's Mosque in Medina in Saudi Arabia on Monday, including a suicide bomber and two security officers, Saudi-owned al-Arabiya television reported.

A suicide blast struck Monday in Saudi Arabia outside one of Islam's holiest sites, the Prophet's Mosque in Medina, a Saudi-owned television channel reported.

State-linked Saudi news sites are reporting that a suicide bomber has carried out an attack near a US diplomatic site in the Red Sea city of Jeddah.

A suicide bomber blew himself up at a mosque in Najran in southern Saudi Arabia on Monday, killing at least three people and wounding several others, Saudi-owned al-Arabiya television reported.

Saudi authorities have arrested three brothers linked to a suicide bombing by a Saudi man on a Shi'ite Muslim mosque in neighboring Kuwait last month, Saudi state news agency SPA reported today.

Kuwait today identified the suicide bomber behind an attack on a Shiite mosque as a Saudi national, after a series of arrests in connection with the blast that left 26 dead.

Islamic State claimed responsibility for a bombing that killed four people at a Shi'ite Muslim mosque in eastern Saudi Arabia on Friday, the second attack claimed by the Sunni militant group in a week in the world's top oil-exporting country.

Saudi Arabia has said that the suicide bomber at the mosque attack killing 21 worshipers was a Saudi national and a member of Islamic State (IS), Saudi Press Agency reported.

A blast ripped through a Shiite mosque in eastern Saudi Arabia on Friday, authorities said, in what an activist said was a deadly suicide bombing.

Mohammed Hanif Sayyed, sentenced to death for carrying out the 2003 twin blasts in Mumbai at the instance of Laskhar-e-Toiba (LeT), was an auto rickshaw driver. Hanif (46) left for Saudi Arabia in 1992 as a catering assistant on a salary of 700 Riyal. He worked there till 1994 and returned to Mumbai. Thereafter, he was plying a rented auto ricksha...