DUBAI: Saudi security forces undertook an operation against alleged Islamic state fighters in Makkah on Thursday, state television channel Ekhbariya said.
“The
security authorities succeeded in their
operation against a number of Daesh partisans holed up at a recreational area in Makkah,” the TV station said in a news flash, using the Arabic acronym for
Islamic state.
It gave ** details, but al-Okaz newspaper reported that the forces surrounded a group of men in the Wadi **man area south of the city and four wanted men were killed in a gun battle.
In an earlier, two-day
security operation that ended on Sunday, two
Islamic state suspects were killed and a third was wounded in southwestern Bisha province.
Saudi Arabia, the world’s top oil exporter, has been hit by a spate of deadly shootings and bombings targeting
security forces since last year.
Islamic State’s local branches have claimed many of them.
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