SUICIDE BOMBERS HIT THREE SAUDI CITIES ON PENULTIMATE DAY OF RAMADAN:

Suicide bombers struck three cities across Saudi Arabia on 4 July 2016, in an apparently coordinated campaign of attacks as Saudis prepared to break their fast on the penultimate day of the month of Ramadan. The explosions targeting USA diplomats, Shi'ite worshippers and a security headquarters at a mosque in the Muslim holy city of Medina follow days of mass killings claimed by the ISIS terrorist group, in Turkey, Bangladesh and Iraq. The attacks all seem to have been timed to coincide with the approach of Eid al-Fitr, the holiday that celebrates the end of the fast. A Saudi security official said an attacker parked a car near the USA consulate in Jeddah before detonating the device. The official said the government was checking the reports of blasts in Qatif and Medina. In the only one of the three attacks that appeared to have caused many casualties, a suicide bomber detonated a bomb near the security headquarters of the Prophet's Mosque in Medina, the second-holiest site in Islam. (J.Post)