ISIS cell dismantled in Saudi Arabian capital

The Saudi government dismantled an ISIS cell in Riyadh in connection with a plot to launch a suicide attack on the Defense Ministry.

Two militants were killed and five others were arrested in raids on three locations on Wednesday, an official of the Presidency of State Security said in a statement on state-run television.

A suicide bomber in the eastern Riyadh district of al-Rimal detonated his vest after security forces surrounded a house used to manufacture suicide vests and explosives. Security forces killed another militant after he holed up with firearms in an apartment in the western district of al-Namar.

The third raid was at a horse stable in the southern suburb of al-Ghanamia, which the statement said had been used as a headquarters.

Security forces seized firearms and bomb-making materials, which were shown on state television along with a burned-out car and a damaged building where the first militant had blown himself up. The suspects weren't identified, Reuters reported.