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The Qatif and Dammam mosque bombings occurred on 22 and 29 May 2015. On Friday May 22, a suicide bomber attacked the Shia "Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib Mosque" situated in Qudeih village of Qatif city in Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia. The Islamic State claimed responsibility for the blast, which killed at least 21 people. The incident was the second ...
According to a press release by the Saudi Press Agency, the official news agency of Saudi Arabia, "Security spokesman of the Interior Ministry said in a statement that before the prayers of Maghrib in Madinah on Monday 09/29/1437 AH, security men suspected a person while he was heading to the Prophet's Mosque through a vacant lot of land used as a parking space for visitors' cars.
In May 2015, Qatif and Dammam mosque bombings, claimed the lives of over 25 Saudi Shia Muslims, and 106 wounded. An August 2015 attack by an ISIL-related suicide bomber murdered fifteen people and injured nine more at a mosque inside a Saudi special forces headquarters.
Qatif and Dammam mosque bombings; S. 2016 Saudi Arabia bombings This page was last edited on 29 October 2024, at 19:56 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
29 July – Press reports indicate that on 29 July a policeman was killed in a drive-by shooting in the village on Al-Jish in Qatif Province. [32] 7 August – A suicide bomber attacked a Sunni mosque in Abha, in the southern province of Asir. The mosque was inside a military installation controlled by Saudi special forces engaged in the war in ...
Suicide bomber Abu 'Ammar al-Najdi detonated a suicide bomb during Friday prayers at a Shia mosque. ISIS claimed responsibility. [8] 21 50+ 29 May 2015 Qatif and Dammam mosque bombings: Dammam, Eastern Province: An attacker, disguised as a woman, attempted to enter the women's section of the Imam Hussein mosque, the city's only Shia mosque ...
2017–2020 Qatif unrest; A. Al-Awamiyah; 2014 al-Dalwah attack; C. Conquest of al-Hasa; N. Nimr al-Nimr; Q. Qatif conflict; Qatif and Dammam mosque bombings; S. 2016 ...
The 2017–2020 Qatif unrest was a phase of conflict in the Qatif region of Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia, between Saudi security forces and the local Shia community, [6] that arose sporadically starting in 1979, [7] including a series of protests and repression during the 2011–12 Saudi Arabian protests. [8]