2015 Abha mosque bombing

2015 Saudi Arabia attack
Part of Military intervention against ISIL
Location	18°13′1″N42°30′19″E / 18.21694°N 42.50528°E / 18.21694; 42.50528Abha, Asir, Saudi Arabia
Date	August 6, 2015
Attack type	Suicide bombing
Deaths	17[1]
Injured	1
Perpetrator	Islamic State Hejaz Province

The 2015 Abha mosque bombing occurred on 6 August 2015, when a suicide bomb attack killed 17 people at a mosque in the south-western Saudi Arabian city of Abha.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

Responsibility for the attack, in a city near Saudi Arabia's southern border with Yemen, a country presently torn apart by the Yemeni Civil War, was claimed by a self-described affiliate of Islamic State of Iraq and Syria calling itself Wilāyat al-Ḥijāz.^[6][7]

See also

• Qatif and Dammam mosque bombings
• 2015 Arar attack
• Kuwait mosque bombing
• Terrorism in Saudi Arabia
• List of terrorist incidents, 2015

References

1. "Suicide bomber kills 15 in Saudi security site mosque". Reuters UK. 6 August 2015. Archived from the original on December 8, 2015. Retrieved 6 August 2015.
2. "Saudi says its citizen carried out mosque suicide blast". Retrieved 11 August 2015.
3. Kareem Shaheen (6 August 2015). "Islamic State claims suicide bombing at Saudi Arabian mosque". the Guardian. Retrieved 11 August 2015.
4. Hubbard, Ben (6 August 2015). "At Least 15 die at Saudi Mosque from Suicide Bomber". The New York Times.
5. Saudi Gazette. "Terror strikes mosque in Abha". Archived from the original on 10 August 2015. Retrieved 11 August 2015.
6. al-Shihri, Abdullah (7 August 2015). "Saudi Arabia mosque bombing that killed 15 claimed by 'new' Islamic State group". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 7 August 2015.
7. "Islamic State group claims Saudi mosque suicide blast". BBC News. 6 August 2015. Retrieved 11 August 2015.