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Eskan Village, officially named Eskan Village Compound, is a U.S. military compound located 20 kilometers south-east of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.The base is home to the United States Military Training Mission in Saudi Arabia (USMTM), Office of the Program Manager Saudi Arabian National Guard Modernization Program (OPM-SANG), the Office of the Program Manager - Facilities Security Force (OPM-FSF ...
On 8 November, a bomb was detonated outside the Al-Mohaya housing compound west of Riyadh, killing at least 17 people and wounding 122, mostly Arab foreigners. [3] [4] The bombings have been attributed to Islamic extremists as part of a campaign against Westerners and Westernization in Saudi Arabia.
Sedra (Arabic: سدرة, lit. 'endurance'), stylized as SEDRA, is a housing development project in northern Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, located east of Princess Nourah bint Abdul Rahman University and north of al-Munsiyah in the sub-municipality of al-Rawdah.
Westerners, including Americans, live in housing compounds with luxurious amenities, such as swimming pools and tennis courts, which are sealed off from surrounding neighborhoods by high walls and gates which give Americans "some security and privacy from the country's strict Islamic code on matters of dress and social mixing." [5]
3 November Police surround militant hideout in Riyadh and kill two. 6 November Two militants surrounded by the police in Riyadh blow themselves up. 8 November A truck bomb explodes at an Arab housing compound in Riyadh, killing 17 and injuring 120. 8 December An unnamed militant is killed at a Riyadh gas station.
A month later on 20 June, in the Riyadh suburb of Al-Nakheel, a British national, Simon Veness, a 35-year-old bank employee, was killed after a bomb placed underneath his vehicle exploded a few seconds after he set off for work. [14] [15] On 29 June, a car bomb placed on the vehicle of an American couple in Riyadh was disarmed by Saudi authorities.
The New Riyadh) [1] and the Red Sea neighborhood, [2] is a commercial and residential neighborhood in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and the seat of the homonymous sub-municipality of al-Malaz. Named after the al-Malaz Square (now King Abdullah Park), it was built in the 1950s by King Saud bin Abdulaziz as a housing project for government employees and ...
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