BREAKING NEWS: Explosion hits Shia mosque in Kuwait
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Daesh claims responsibility for mosque explosion in Kuwait
At least 13 killed; Daesh terror group claims responsibility for the blast; Kuwait’s Emir inspects the area surrounded by a security cordon
At least 13 killed and many people wounded in a suicide attack that targeted a Shiite Muslim mosque packed with some 2,000 worshippers during Friday prayers in Kuwait city, a witness said.
According to initial witness reports, eight people were killed in the explosion. But agency reports revised the death toll upward to 13.
Daesh claims attack
A Daesh terror group branch that refers to itself as the “Islamic State in the Province of Najd” (central Saudi Arabia) claimed responsibility for the attack on the mosque.
It named the bomber as Abu Sulaiman Al Muwahhid, adding that he was armed with a suicide belt, and targeted the “temple of the rejectionists”, using a pejorative reference to Shiites.
Kuwaiti parliament member Khalil Al Salih said worshippers were kneeling in prayer when a loud explosion ripped through, damaging the walls and ceiling.
He said a suicide bomber who looked to be under 30 years of age caused the explosion and that he saw several bodies covered in blood on the floor.
They identified the target as the Imam Sadiq mosque.
Emir visits mosque
Kuwait’s Emir Shaikh Sabah Al Ahmad has arrived at the Shiite mosque in the Sawaber district that witnessed an explosion during Friday prayers. Videos distributed on social media showed the emir inspecting the area surrounded by a security cordon.
Mohammed Al Faili, 32, told The Associated Press that his 70 year-old father was killed in what appeared to be a bombing attack. Two of his brothers were also wounded by the explosion. Speaking to the AP by telephone, he said he was not at the mosque at the time of the explosion but was heading to the morgue to identify his father's body.
Kuwaiti media reported that a state of emergency was announced in several hospitals around the mosque.
Member of parliament Saleh Ashoor called on Kuwaitis to remain calm and “rally around the leadership”.
“Today we are all united in the face of terrorism and takfirist,” he said, referring to radical Muslims who declare Shiites as apostates. He also called on the government to “translate its words into deeds” and crack down on “those who declare Shiites as infidels and Zoroastrians and refer to their mosques as temples”.
Friday midday prayers are the most crowded of the week, and attendance increases during the Ramadan, which started last week.
The Gulf nation, which has a mixed population of Sunnis and Shiites, has enjoyed relative security and stability, despite often turbulent parliamentary politics.
Attack condemned
Bahraini foreign minister Shaikh Khaled Bin Ahmad strongly condemned the attack, saying on Twitter that it “is not sectarianism, but a war on Islam and a calculated [attempt at sowing] discord [among Muslims]”.
“The presence of [separate] mosques for Shiites and Sunnis is the bigger innovation. This is sectarianism par excellence,” he tweeted.
Daesh claims responsibility for mosque explosion in Kuwait | GulfNews.com
Daesh claims responsibility for mosque explosion in Kuwait
At least 13 killed; Daesh terror group claims responsibility for the blast; Kuwait’s Emir inspects the area surrounded by a security cordon
At least 13 killed and many people wounded in a suicide attack that targeted a Shiite Muslim mosque packed with some 2,000 worshippers during Friday prayers in Kuwait city, a witness said.
According to initial witness reports, eight people were killed in the explosion. But agency reports revised the death toll upward to 13.
Daesh claims attack
A Daesh terror group branch that refers to itself as the “Islamic State in the Province of Najd” (central Saudi Arabia) claimed responsibility for the attack on the mosque.
It named the bomber as Abu Sulaiman Al Muwahhid, adding that he was armed with a suicide belt, and targeted the “temple of the rejectionists”, using a pejorative reference to Shiites.
Kuwaiti parliament member Khalil Al Salih said worshippers were kneeling in prayer when a loud explosion ripped through, damaging the walls and ceiling.
He said a suicide bomber who looked to be under 30 years of age caused the explosion and that he saw several bodies covered in blood on the floor.
They identified the target as the Imam Sadiq mosque.
Emir visits mosque
Kuwait’s Emir Shaikh Sabah Al Ahmad has arrived at the Shiite mosque in the Sawaber district that witnessed an explosion during Friday prayers. Videos distributed on social media showed the emir inspecting the area surrounded by a security cordon.
Mohammed Al Faili, 32, told The Associated Press that his 70 year-old father was killed in what appeared to be a bombing attack. Two of his brothers were also wounded by the explosion. Speaking to the AP by telephone, he said he was not at the mosque at the time of the explosion but was heading to the morgue to identify his father's body.
Kuwaiti media reported that a state of emergency was announced in several hospitals around the mosque.
Member of parliament Saleh Ashoor called on Kuwaitis to remain calm and “rally around the leadership”.
“Today we are all united in the face of terrorism and takfirist,” he said, referring to radical Muslims who declare Shiites as apostates. He also called on the government to “translate its words into deeds” and crack down on “those who declare Shiites as infidels and Zoroastrians and refer to their mosques as temples”.
Friday midday prayers are the most crowded of the week, and attendance increases during the Ramadan, which started last week.
The Gulf nation, which has a mixed population of Sunnis and Shiites, has enjoyed relative security and stability, despite often turbulent parliamentary politics.
Attack condemned
Bahraini foreign minister Shaikh Khaled Bin Ahmad strongly condemned the attack, saying on Twitter that it “is not sectarianism, but a war on Islam and a calculated [attempt at sowing] discord [among Muslims]”.
“The presence of [separate] mosques for Shiites and Sunnis is the bigger innovation. This is sectarianism par excellence,” he tweeted.
Daesh claims responsibility for mosque explosion in Kuwait | GulfNews.com
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The French one will come out as ISIS eventually. Its the brutality of it that makes me say it. Lets wait for more information to come in before we come to conclusions about coordination. Open BBC page. Whole front page is just their attacks. I suppose that is what their objective was.
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Sad news, RIP.
Religious bigotry and sectarian violence at its peak!
Religious bigotry and sectarian violence at its peak!
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Syria crisis: Islamic State 'kills 120 civilians' in Kobane
Islamic State (IS) militants have killed more than 120 civilians since launching a fresh attack on the Syrian border town of Kobane, activists say.
IS "fired at everything that moved" after entering on Thursday, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
A separate IS attack on the north-eastern city of Hassakeh has displaced 60,000 people, the UN says.
Kobane became a symbol of Kurdish resistance in January after an IS siege lasting several months was repelled.
IS launched an apparent two-pronged offensive on Thursday after Kurdish fighters from the Popular Protection Units (YPG) cut off one of the militants' major supply routes near Raqqa.
Raqqa is the de facto capital of the IS "caliphate", whose creation IS announced a year ago after it captured large swathes of northern and western Iraq and parts of Syria.
'Women and children'
"According to medical sources and Kobane residents, 120 civilians were executed by IS in their homes or killed by the group's rockets or snipers," said Rami Abdel Rahman, who heads the UK-based Observatory.
He said women and children were among the bodies found inside houses and on the streets of the town, which is close to the border with Turkey.
He described it as one of the biggest massacres by the group in the country since its offensive began last summer.
The militants took the town by surprise when they launched their attack on Thursday, five months after IS was removed by Kurdish fighters backed by US-led coalition strikes.
The attack at dawn on Thursday began when militants detonated a car bomb, followed by two more bombings.
Reports said some of the militants may have hidden themselves among returning refugees and disguised themselves by wearing Kurdish militia uniforms.
In a nearby village, IS reportedly shot dead at least 20 civilians, including women and children.
Activists say clashes between some IS militants and the Kurdish YPG forces are continuing in the town.
Separately on Friday, the UN said an estimated 50,000 people had been displaced within the city of Hassakeh after another IS offensive there. Another 10,000 have fled northwards towards a town near the Turkish border, it added.
Hassakeh, about 270km (180 miles) east of Kobane, has been under the control of both government forces and Kurdish fighters, and IS militants have been trying to capture it for months.
Overall, in four years of armed conflict in Syria, more than 200,000 people have lost their lives and more than 11 million others have been forced from their homes.
Syria crisis: Islamic State 'kills 120 civilians' in Kobane - BBC News
Syria crisis: Islamic State 'kills 120 civilians' in Kobane
Islamic State (IS) militants have killed more than 120 civilians since launching a fresh attack on the Syrian border town of Kobane, activists say.
IS "fired at everything that moved" after entering on Thursday, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
A separate IS attack on the north-eastern city of Hassakeh has displaced 60,000 people, the UN says.
Kobane became a symbol of Kurdish resistance in January after an IS siege lasting several months was repelled.
IS launched an apparent two-pronged offensive on Thursday after Kurdish fighters from the Popular Protection Units (YPG) cut off one of the militants' major supply routes near Raqqa.
Raqqa is the de facto capital of the IS "caliphate", whose creation IS announced a year ago after it captured large swathes of northern and western Iraq and parts of Syria.
'Women and children'
"According to medical sources and Kobane residents, 120 civilians were executed by IS in their homes or killed by the group's rockets or snipers," said Rami Abdel Rahman, who heads the UK-based Observatory.
He said women and children were among the bodies found inside houses and on the streets of the town, which is close to the border with Turkey.
He described it as one of the biggest massacres by the group in the country since its offensive began last summer.
The militants took the town by surprise when they launched their attack on Thursday, five months after IS was removed by Kurdish fighters backed by US-led coalition strikes.
The attack at dawn on Thursday began when militants detonated a car bomb, followed by two more bombings.
Reports said some of the militants may have hidden themselves among returning refugees and disguised themselves by wearing Kurdish militia uniforms.
In a nearby village, IS reportedly shot dead at least 20 civilians, including women and children.
Activists say clashes between some IS militants and the Kurdish YPG forces are continuing in the town.
Separately on Friday, the UN said an estimated 50,000 people had been displaced within the city of Hassakeh after another IS offensive there. Another 10,000 have fled northwards towards a town near the Turkish border, it added.
Hassakeh, about 270km (180 miles) east of Kobane, has been under the control of both government forces and Kurdish fighters, and IS militants have been trying to capture it for months.
Overall, in four years of armed conflict in Syria, more than 200,000 people have lost their lives and more than 11 million others have been forced from their homes.
Syria crisis: Islamic State 'kills 120 civilians' in Kobane - BBC News
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Sad news. I don't remember a terrorist attack in Kuwait ever happening.
ISIS is trying to cause sectarian tensions in fully peaceful countries such as KSA and Kuwait. This is what their 3 attacks in recent months aim at doing but they won't succeed in the GCC.
إنا لله وإنا إليه راجعون
ISIS is trying to cause sectarian tensions in fully peaceful countries such as KSA and Kuwait. This is what their 3 attacks in recent months aim at doing but they won't succeed in the GCC.
إنا لله وإنا إليه راجعون
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so whether its KSA, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan or Kuwait... the target seem to be only shias
ISIS is not attacking GCC countries directly but it was started attacking its favourite targets inside these countries
RIP to the dead hope that Kuwaitis help the victims
this is correct
the kind of solidarity and unity shown in KSA in similar back to back attacks meant that ISIS had to try other country
hopefully it will fail in all targeted countries
Amen
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Daeshi - Islamic state tentacles now reached Kuwait .. Rip Shias
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Why the negative rating ? @Serpentine
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It's just a reminder that you shouldn't feel any sympathy for Shis. Lol
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You cannot compare KSA and Kuwait with Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq etc. with all due respect. The terror in those 3 non-GCC countries is 1000 times more grave including the divisions in the society. GCC has in comparison been hit by less than 5 terrorist attacks since ISIS emerged despite neighboring Iraq directly and having Syria next door. Now a volatile Yemen too.
In the 2000's when Al-Qaeda was causing trouble in KSA Shia's were practically never targeted rather it was Saudi Arabian Sunni Muslims and foreigners (many of them Western).
GCC is home to one of the biggest Shia minorities in the world and is the birthplace of Shia Islam and all its sects so it's totally false to claim that this is part of the GCC agenda. 20% of the population in the GCC Is Shia for God's sake.
Don't mistake our hostility towards the fake wannabe Arab Mullah's that are ruling Iran and their proxy groups with ordinary Shias. Let alone Arab Shia's whom 95% of us consider brothers and sisters like any other Arab group.
If Persians were Sunni Muslims the same problems would continue. So don't let sect fool you here.
We have theological differences (some have) with Shia's but that's about it. That's why people in GCC regardless of sect live peacefully with each other.
We don't/won't expect such point of views Irfan.
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Sorry bro, I was visiting with my cellphone, it must have been a mistake and a wrong touch. I didn't notice it. It's gone now.
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