Saudi Arabia arrests 431 Islamic State suspects, claims to thwart attacks

Saudi Arabia says it has arrested 431 suspected members of the Islamic State terrorist group and prevented attacks on mosques, security forces and a diplomatic mission.The raids by authorities were initiated after a series of attacks against security forces and a minority Shia community, which supporters of Islamic state (IS, formerly ISIS) claim to have carried out.

“The number arrested to date is 431, most of them citizens, in addition to participants from other nationalities ... six successive suicide operations, which targeted mosques in the Eastern province on every Friday, timed with assassinations of security men were thwarted,” Saudi interior ministry said in a statement posted on the official news agency SPA, Reuters reports.

“Terrorist plots to target a diplomatic mission, security and government facilities in Sharurah (a small town in the south), and the assassination of security men were thwarted,” the statement said.

INC News, 18/07/2015 - via RT