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D. Ramadan is ninth month of the Islamic calendar and healthy Muslims are obligated to fast from dawn to dusk. Muslims are also instructed to refrain from sinful behavior that may negate the reward of fasting, such as false speech and fighting. Islamic State leaders claimed responsibility for the Kuwait attack and had earlier called for such attacks during Ramadan.
B. Islamic State troops have taken and terrorized large swathes of Iraq and its northwestern neighbor Syria. In the Syrian city of Kobane last week, attacking Islamic State fighters were reported going door-to-door executing civilians in their homes.
C. Kuwait is majority Sunni country, with a large Shia minority and no history of serious sectarian tension. However, in neighboring Saudi Arabia there have recently been attacks against Shia mosques. The Shia-Sunni divide goes back to a dispute over who was the rightful heir to the Prophet Muhammad who started Islam in the Arabian cities of Mecca and Medina.
A. Kuwait is in southwestern Asia. Tunisia in north African is a popular destination for European tourists who were most of those killed by grenades and guns in the beach attack. France is home to the largest Muslim population in Western Europe and has the suffered attacks by radical Islamists since the 1990s. One victim was beheaded in Friday's failed attempt to bomb the gas plant.