"The interior ministry said on Sunday it foiled three terrorist plots targeting the country's security by directing three pre-emptive raids inside and outside Kuwait against terrorist elements of the so-called Daesh," said a statement on KUNA, referring to Islamic State's acronym in Arabic.
Kuwait foils three Islamic State attacks - State media
The statement did not provide details of the identities of the militants or the countries in which they had been arrested.
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A year ago, an Islamic State group suicide bomber killed 27 people when he blew himself up inside a Shi'ite Muslim mosque in Kuwait City, the first attack of its kind in the oil-exporting state.
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