The poorer neighbourhoods in the south of Jeddah were particularly hard hit Attack , as was the area around King Abdulaziz University .

The Khobar Towers bombing Attack was a terrorist Terrorism attack Attack on part of a housing Building complex Cause_to_amalgamate in the city of Khobar , Saudi Arabia , located near the national oil company ( Saudi Aramco ) headquarters of Dhahran and nearby King Abdulaziz Air Base on June 25 , 1996 .