2015 Arar attack

2015 Saudi Arabia attack
Location of Northern Borders Region, Saudi Arabia
Location	Arar, Northern Borders Region, Saudi Arabia
Date	5 January 2015
Attack type	Suicide bombing
Deaths	5 killed (including the two perpetrators)
Injured	1
Perpetrators	Islamic State

On 5 January 2015, two men, one strapped with a suicide vest, ambushed a border guard patrol in Arar, Saudi Arabia along the border of Iraq, killing three guards and injuring another. The guards were able to return fire and kill one of the terrorists and afterwards the suicide bomber detonated his vest.

The commander of the patrol Brigadier General Awda Muawad Al-Balawi along with two other soldiers Private Tariq Muhammad Halawi and Corporal Yahya Ahmed Najimi were killed while Corporal Salem Ta’isan Al-Anzi was injured.

See also

• 2014 al-Dalwah attack
• List of terrorist incidents, 2015