Kuwait crackdown on 'IS-supporting extremist cell' Published duration 20 November 2015

image copyright AFP image caption An affiliate of Islamic State claimed responsibility for the worst terror attack in decades in Kuwait City in June this year

Kuwait has arrested members of an alleged cell accused of supplying funds and weapons to the so-called Islamic State (IS), reports say.

A Lebanese national named Osama Khayat allegedly confessed to buying ammunition and rockets for IS, said the Kuna state news agency, citing the interior ministry.

Five others had been arrested, the report said.

In June, 27 people died after an attack on one of Kuwait's oldest Shia mosques.

It was the deadliest bombing in decades in the predominantly Sunni Muslim country. An affiliate group of IS calling itself Najd Province said it carried out the attack.

IS has also said it was behind last week's attacks in Paris and Beirut.

Kuwait's interior ministry said the cell had been helping to recruit fighters and raised money that was being funnelled to an IS-related bank account in Turkey.