`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,´ the ministry statement posted on the official news agency SPA said.
„Terrorist plots to target a diplomatic mission, security and government facilities in Sharurah province and the assassination of security men were thwarted,“ it said.(…)
U.S. Defence Secretary Ash Carter will travel next week to Saudi Arabia as part of the Obama administration‘s efforts to convince sceptical allies in the region about the benefits of the Iran nuclear deal.