RIYADH: Saudi security forces have launched a security operation near the city of Mecca, killing four men suspected of belonging to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
The Jeddah-based al-Okaz newspaper said on Thursday that the forces surrounded a group of men in the Wadi Noman area south of the city where four wanted men were killed in a gun battle, Aljazeera reported
In an operation that ended on Sunday, two ISIL suspects were killed and a third was wounded in the southwestern Bisha province.