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Egypt attacks IS group in Libya after video of mass beheading surfaces

India Blooms News Service | | Feb 16, 2015, at 11:32 pm

Cairo, Feb 16 (IBNS): Egypt on Monday launched airstrikes against Islamic State targets in Libya after the extremist group released a video, which showed the beheading of several Egyptian Coptic Christians, it had held hostage for weeks, media reports said.

According to reports, a spokesman for the Armed Forces General Command announced the strikes on state radio on Monday.

The statement on radio reportedly said that the strikes were launched "to avenge the bloodshed and to seek retribution from the killers. Let those far and near know that Egyptians have a shield that protects them."

This comes after the heinous murders of 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians by an affiliate of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.

#Egypt attacks IS group in Libya after video of mass beheading surfaces

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