Muslim clerics condemned three militant attacks in Tunisia, Kuwait and France on Friday that killed dozens of people including holidaymakers.

Al-Azhar, a leading Sunni Muslim institution based in Egypt, said the "heinous" shooting at a Tunisian coastal resort which killed 28 people, mostly Europeans, was a "violation of all religious and humanitarian norms."

The United States condemned "heinous attacks" in France, Kuwait and Tunisia on Friday but said it had seen no evidence that they were directly coordinated.

"Our thoughts and prayers are with the victims of these heinous attacks, their loved ones, and the people of all three countries," the White House said.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the Security Council on Friday strongly condemned the attacks in France, Kuwait and Tunisia and said those responsible must face justice.

One person was decapitated in southeastern France, while in Tunisia gunmen killed at least 37 people at a beach resort, and 27 people died in a suicide bombing claimed by Islamic State jihadists in Kuwait.

The U.S. owners of the industrial gas factory attacked Friday in France said they had boosted security at their locations around the world as a precaution.

A suspected Islamist launched a daylight raid on the facility, pinning a severed head to the gates in what French President Francois Hollande called a "terrorist" attack.

An Israeli minister on Friday urged French Jews to flee to Israel after a suspected Islamist attacked a factory near Lyon and pinned a severed head to the gates.

"I call on the Jews of France – come home! Anti-Semitism is rising, terror is increasing," immigration minister Zeev Elkin, a member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's rightwing Likud party said in a statement.

European leaders condemned Friday's "heinous" suspected Islamist attack on a gas factory in France and massacres in Tunisia and Kuwait, vowing to maintain a united front against "barbarism".

One person was decapitated near Lyon in southeastern France while in Tunisia gunmen killed at least 27 people at a beach resort and in Kuwait a suicide bombing at a mosque claimed by Islamic State jihadists killed 13.

A suspected Islamist pinned the severed head of his boss to the gates of a U.S.-owned gas factory in France Friday in what President Francois Hollande called a "terrorist" attack.

The alleged assailant, identified as 35-year-old married father-of-three Yassin Salhi, also smashed his vehicle into the Air Products factory, causing an explosion.

The Obama administration is set to nominate Elizabeth Richard, a deputy assistant secretary of state in the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, as Ambassador to Lebanon, pan-Arab daily al-Hayat reported on Friday.

The daily quoted U.S. and diplomatic sources as saying that if Richard is confirmed by Congress, then she will replace David Hale.

French President Francois Hollande on Friday condemned violent protests against ride-booking app Uber after taxi drivers set fire to vehicles and blocked highways but he said the service should be taken off the road.

Hollande described the demonstrations, in which U.S. rocker Courtney Love was caught up, as "unacceptable violence in a democracy, in a country like France."

Protests against ride-booking app Uber turned violent Thursday in France as cabbies torched cars, blocked roads and attacked a vehicle carrying American rocker Courtney Love.

Among the some 2,800 cabbies who took part in the strike, police arrested at least 11 across the country in connection with confrontations that erupted as the drivers blocked access to airports, train stations and major roads.