Kuwait mosque bombing

Turkey has strongly condemned June 27's twin suicide bomb attacks in Tunisia.

A Kuwaiti court sentenced seven people to death on Sept.15, five of them in absentia, for their roles in a deadly Shiite mosque bombing claimed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). 

Kuwait has broken up a new five-member cell of alleged members of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) jihadist group one month after a deadly bombing at a Shiite mosque, the interior ministry said July 30.

Kuwait's public prosecution has demanded the death penalty for 11 of 29 suspects charged over the suicide bombing of a Shiite mosque last month, a newspaper reported on July 15.

Al-Qabas, citing informed sources, said two of the suspects are currently fighting with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) which claimed the attack.    

Kuwait?s interior minister said June 30 the country was at war with militants and would strike out at cells believed to be in the country. 

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militant group claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing on Friday by a Saudi citizen on a Shi?ite Muslim mosque in Kuwait City which killed 27 worshippers. 

A suicide bomber who carried out a deadly attack claimed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group on a Shiite mosque in Kuwait was a Saudi national, the interior ministry said June 28.

Kuwaiti police arrested a driver who transported a suicide bomber to a Shiite mosque where he blew himself up, killing 26 and injuring 227 people, the interior ministry said June 28.

A suicide bomb attack, which exploded at a Shia mosque in the capital of Kuwait - Kuwait City on Friday left several people dead.

According to some reports, at least eight people were killed and injuring several others in the suicide attack, which came after the Friday prayers, Al Jazeera reports.

A bomb has exploded in a Shiite mosque in the Kuwaiti capital.
     
The bomb struck the Imam Sadiq Mosque in a busy area of Kuwait City's al-Sawabir district. Witness Abdullah al-Saffar was at the mosque at the time. He says the explosions took place on the mosque grounds following Friday prayers, and that there were casualties.
     

ISIS assumed responsibility for a suicide attack against a Shiite mosque in Saudi Arabia. According to the SA Health Ministry 21 people were killed and 81 were wounded, out of which 21 are in critical condition.

After the attack, the UN Security Council issued a response which stated that “ISIS must be defeated”.