An Islamic State suicide bomber struck a Shia mosque in the Kuwaiti capital during Friday prayers, killing 27 people as the Gulf state declared an “all-out confrontation” with terrorism.Health Minister Ali al-Obaidi told Kuwait Television that the number of deceased had risen to 27, in addition to 227 wounded in the first-ever suicide attack on Shia mosques in the oil-rich emirate of the world. The toll in the attack, carried out on the second Friday of the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramzan, is one of the largest in Kuwait's history.
