Kuwait executes 5 prisoners including mosque bomber linked to ISIS
- Kuwait executed 5 people including a man convicted for the 2015 bombing of a Shiite mosque that killed 27.
- The attack was claimed by ISIS and aimed to incite sectarian unrest but instead united Kuwaitis.
- The bomber was part of Kuwait's stateless community and was convicted of murder and ISIS membership.
- The attack was the first militant bombing in Kuwait in over 2 decades and was carried out by a Saudi man.
- Rights groups have expressed concern about executions in Kuwait and other Gulf states that apply the death penalty.