SAUDI ARABIA announced at the weekend that it had broken up an alleged Islamic State (Isis) terrorist ring and arrested more than 400 suspects while 37 people were killed during clashes.

The Saudi Interior Ministry said that six “terrorists” had been killed, while the death toll included security forces and civilians killed during the crackdown on a cluster of Isis cells.

The ministry said it had detained 431 suspects over the “past few weeks,” 190 of whom were believed to have been involved in May’s suicide bombings of Shi’ite mosques which killed dozens of people.