Saudi forces kill four militants

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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.