Kuwait has set up a permanent committee to fight ‘terrorism’ and extremism.

At its weekly meeting, the cabinet ‘decided to form a permanent committee to co-ordinate between various bodies to ensure security and fight against all forms of terrorism and extremism,’ said a report in the Gulf Daily News (GDN), our sister publication.

A Saudi suicide bomber blew himself up in a Shi’ite mosque in Kuwait City on June 26, killing 26 worshippers and wounding 227 others in an attack claimed by the Islamic State (IS) group.

The interior ministry has arrested more than 40 people in connection with the attack and referred them to the public prosecution for legal action.

The Cabinet statement said the new committee will also work to drain sources of ‘terror’ funding and intensify awareness programmes.

It said the move came after the recent surge in ‘terrorism.’

The interior ministry has said two Saudi brothers arrested by police in Saudi Arabia transported the explosives into Kuwait.

They delivered the explosives to Abdulrahman Sabah Eidan Saud, a stateless Arab who passed them on to the suicide bomber and drove him to the mosque.

An IS-affiliated group calling itself Najd Province claimed the Kuwait bombing and also said it carried out two suicide attacks at Shi’ite mosques in Saudi Arabia in May. - TradeArabia News Service