Credit: author unknownPublic domainSourceUNSOLVEDListenKhobar Towers, Khobar, Saudi Arabia · 1996
A truck bomb detonated outside a U.S. Air Force housing building at the Khobar Towers complex in Khobar, Saudi Arabia, on 25 June 1996, killing 19 U.S. Air Force personnel and wounding 498 people of various nationalities.
Credit: Not cited.Public domainSourceSOLVEDListenGrand Mosque, Mecca, Saudi Arabia · 1979
In November–December 1979, up to 600 militants led by Juhayman al-Otaybi seized the Grand Mosque in Mecca, taking hostages and declaring one of their leaders the Mahdi. Saudi forces, aided by French and Pakistani advisors, retook the mosque after a two-week siege; 270 people died and 68 militants were later executed.
UNSOLVEDListenRiyadh, Saudi Arabia · 2023
Eden Knight, a Saudi Arabian trans woman studying in the United States, died by suicide on or around March 12, 2023, after posting a note describing how she was coerced by fixers hired by her parents into returning to Saudi Arabia, where her family forced her to detransition.
SOLVEDListenAl-Masjid an-Nabawi, Medina, Saudi Arabia · 2016
On 4 July 2016, four suicide bombers struck three Saudi Arabian cities in a single day, killing at least four security officers at the Prophet's Mosque in Medina and injuring others, in attacks that drew condemnation from governments and religious leaders worldwide.
SOLVEDListenMedina · 0656
Uthman ibn Affan, the third Rashidun caliph, was killed in his besieged house in Medina on 17 June 656 after months of protest and rebellion over his governance, an event that precipitated the First Fitna.
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