ISIS Attacks 3 Continents

It appears as if the Islamic State's call to carry out acts of terrorism is being heeded as three nations on three continents suffered vicious attacks.

The New York Times reports that attacks took place in France, Kuwait, and Tunisia.

In France, which has been on edge ever since the Charlie Hebdo massacre, a terrorist tried to blow up an American owned chemical manufacturing complex. The suspect was arrested and later discovered to have decapitated his boss before the attack.

In Kuwait, 27 people were killed as they gathered for their Friday prayers in Kuwait City. The mosque was Shiite. ISIS regularly attacks and massacres Shiites in Iraq and Syria. The attack was the first incident of terrorism in the country in more than 20 years.

A group that claimed responsibility for previous mosque attacks in the past month in Saudi Arabia claimed responsibility for this attack and said it was the work of a suicide bomber. Witness accounts of a man who entered the mosque and detonated the device collaborate this much.

The attack in Tunisia was the most lethal, with 37 people killed as they vacationed in a coastal resort in the only country to emerge from the Arab Spring with a functioning democracy. It comes just two months after another attack on a history museum that was filled with tourists who had just disembarked from a cruise ship.

Details about the attack are still uncertain. Some witnesses said that there was more than one shooter, while other said the violence also affected another hotel in the area that is popular with European tourists.

Witnesses said it also took 30 minutes for the Tunisian security forces to arrive and engage the attackers, who killed tourists on the beach, by the pool, and in the hotel lobby.