War on terror

Egyptian warplanes carried out airstrikes early Monday against the Islamic State group in neighboring Libya, the military said, in retaliation for the militants beheading 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians who were kidnapped in Libya.

The airstrikes targeting militant training camps and weapons storage sites came hours after the Islamic State group released a video purporting to show the killings.

President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi had pledged in a televised speech to respond to the beheadings, calling them an 'abhorrent act of terrorism.'

'Egypt reserves the right of retaliation, and with the methods and timing it sees fit for retribution from those murderers and criminals who are without the slightest humanity,' he said.

  

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