Suicide bomber kills 25 in Kuwait attack

A suicide bomber purportedly from an IS affiliate unleashed the first terrorist attack in Kuwait in more than two decades, killing at least 25 people and wounding scores more in a bombing that targeted Shi’ite worshippers after midday prayers.

The bombing struck the Imam Sadiq Mosque in the residential neighbourhood of al-Sawabir in Kuwait’s capital, Kuwait City. It is one of the oldest Shi’ite mosques in Kuwait, a predominantly Sunni Arab nation where at least at third of the population is believed to be Shi’ite Muslims.

It was the third attack in five weeks to be claimed by a purported IS affiliate calling itself the Najd Province, a reference to the central region of Saudi Arabia where the ultra-conservative Sunni ideology of Wahhabism originated.