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Khobar Towers bombing

1996 terrorist attack in Khobar, Saudi Arabia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 26, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

The Khobar Towers bombing was a 25 June 1996 attack on part of a housing complex in the city of Khobar, Saudi Arabia, near the national oil company headquarters of Dhahran and nearby King Abdulaziz Air Base.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Khobar Towers bombing” as 1996 terrorist attack in Khobar, Saudi Arabia. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Khobar, Towers and bombing.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1996—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Khobar, Towers and bombing providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Khobar Towers bombing”, the useful work is to connect “1996 terrorist attack in Khobar, Saudi Arabia” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 26, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1996.

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This entry incorporates text from “Khobar Towers bombing” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.