Talk:Islamic State – Saudi Arabia Province

Additional information from Arabic WP

For someone willing to put the time in, research based off the automatic translation of the Arabic article "ISIS attacks in Saudi Arabia" may yield additional information for this article. RightQuark (talk) 21:21, 5 January 2024 (UTC)

Inactive group?

No recorded attacks since 2017… most likely inactive/defunct/shut down. Unless new attacks come in like a week then i’m going to mark it as defunct Ion.want.uu (talk) 02:18, 5 May 2024 (UTC)

@Ion.want.uu Status is very likely inactive/defunct, please update the group's status as mentioned. This article should, of course, not be deleted as a matter of historical value. Cheers! RightQuark (talk) 00:32, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

@RightQuark updated Ion.want.uu (talk) 19:00, 16 May 2024 (UTC)

They carried out a bombing at the WW1 memorial in Jeddah on November 11th, 2020. Also i doubt theyre defunct, and theyre probably helping out Yemen Province in terms of recruiting and possibly carrying out external attacks in the Gulf region, such as the recent Muscat attack in Oman. Also Saudi Arabia is split into 3 IS "Wilayats" (similar to Libya Province); Najd, Hejaz, and Bahrain, with Hejaz being the one responsible for the Jeddah bombing Alexander141104 (talk) 21:31, 14 August 2024 (UTC)

4 years ago with no recorded attacks is still a huge gap. is there any between 2017-20? if there is it should be updated but besides that i say we mark it as defunct. as far as your assumption of guilt for the yemeni wilyat/any of the saudi provinces in the Muscat attack, there has been no specific noting of which wilyat was guilty. that is not justification to mark them as no longer defunct. Ion.want.uu (talk) 01:50, 17 August 2024 (UTC)

I mean yeah we could, but Al-Qaeda in the Indian Sub-continent (AQIS) is still considered active despite not having carried out an attack in years. IS-Saudi and AQIS have both been the victims of arrests and crackdowns in recent years, and have been recruiting fighters (AQIS in India and Bangladesh, IS-Saudi for IS-Yemen and possibly itself).

We could also just mark it as "possibly defunct" or "most likely defunct" as we dont really know if they are Alexander141104 (talk) 23:38, 17 August 2024 (UTC)

the difference is AQIS has a UN report from <2 years ago, while ISSAP has nothing. i'm open to also editing AQIS to be marked as inactive/defunct but ISSAP should stay in its current status. also rq what's ur opinion on Islamic State – Algeria Province's status. keep it marked active or edit it? Ion.want.uu (talk) 20:36, 18 August 2024 (UTC)

Not really sure, their last claimed attack was also in 2020, but Algerian security forces have claimed several operations against them recently (most recent example being the killing of 2 IS-AP militants in Chlef earlier this year in May), so i guess we could keep them as "active" for now at least Alexander141104 (talk) 20:58, 19 August 2024 (UTC)

Oh yeah also if youre planning on adding the Jeddah bombing to the article, they also claimed a 4 man suicide commando attack near Riyadh in April 2019 Alexander141104 (talk) 00:01, 25 August 2024 (UTC)