Authorities said members in all three confessed to being members of the ISIS jihadist groupKuwaiti security authorities have broken up three Islamic State (ISIS) cells plotting "terror" attacks in the oil-rich Gulf state, the interior ministry saidon Monday. Five Kuwaiti nationals were arrested, including a policeman and a woman, who all confessed to plotting attacks against a Shiite mosque and an interior ministry target, the ministry said in a statement. Several suspected ISIS members and sympathisers were tried in the Gulf emirate for a suicide bombing in June claimed by the group. Kuwaiti police are still looking for a Gulf man and an Asian who assisted one of the cells, the ministry said. The pair confessed to plotting attacks in the country, the ministry said.

Source: dna July 04, 2016 03:45 UTC