Suicide bombing kills 17 Saudi policemen

IS claimed responsibility for that attack, saying it was a message to jihadists held at Al-Hair that they had not been forgotten.

There was another bombing claimed by Islamic State on a Shia mosque in Kuwait in June. It described the dominion’s ruling household as “tyrants” who’ve aligned themselves with “their Crusader masters”, or Western allies.

The Arab News daily quoted Interior Ministry spokesperson Maj.

The beheading followed an attack on the luxurious Corinthia hotel in central Tripoli that killed nine people three weeks earlier that was claimed by the Islamic State. He said initial findings point to the attack being carried out by a suicide bomber wearing an explosive vest. The Islamic State consider Shiites heretics, according to BBC News.

The U.S. ambassador to Riyadh, Joseph Westphal, condemned the assault “within the strongest phrases” and stated in a press release that his “coronary heart is with the households” of the victims.

They said the people of Pakistan stand with their Saudi brethren in their grief.

The Criminal Court trying 29 suspects in a deadly bomb attack on the Imam Al Sadiq mosque freed 11 defendants yesterday, while the main accused said he had been told worshippers would not be harmed.

There were many injured in the blast, which appeared to target a mosque often frequented by the security forces in Abha city, the capital of Aseer province, near the border with Yemen.

Television footage showed blown-out windows, blood-stained walls and the mosque’s red carpet covered with debris and Korans.

The governor of Asir province, Prince Faisal bin Khaled bin Abdul Aziz, visited the mosque and the wounded in hospital.

“For its part, Russian Federation is ready to provide the necessary assistance to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in combating terrorism”.

On May 22, a suicide bomber detonated himself, killing 21 people, at the Imam Ali mosque in the Persian Gulf-area village of Qudayh, in one of Saudi Arabia’s few Shiite population centers in the majority Sunni kingdom.

Saudi security services have announced in the past months the arrest of hundreds of people across the kingdom supporting ISIS, planning attacks and promoting its ideology.