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On 15th of February 2015, a five-minute video was published by Al-Hayat, an IS multi-language media wing, showing the beheading of the captives on a beach along the southern Mediterranean coast. A caption in the video called the captives the "People of the cross, followers of the hostile Egyptian Church". [ 5 ]
In 2011, a NATO-backed uprising toppled Libya's longtime ruler Muammar Gaddafi, and the country has witnessed instability and unrest ever since. [12] Egyptian authorities have long expressed concern over the instability in eastern Libya spilling over into Egypt due to the rise of jihadist movements there, a region which Cairo believes to have developed into a safe transit for wanted Islamists ...
The Egyptian intervention in Libya has been substantial since the beginning of the Libyan civil war. The intervention started after the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) released a video of the beheading of 21 Egyptians on 12 February, 2015. In response, Egypt launched airstrikes on 16 February, that same year. After that incident ...
On February 12, 2015, the ISIL released a report in their online magazine Dabiq showing photos of 21 Egyptian Copts migrant workers that they had kidnapped in the city of Sirte, Libya, and whom they threatened to kill to "avenge the [alleged] kidnapping of Muslim women by the Egyptian Coptic Church". [27]
2015 Corinthia Hotel attack: January 27, 2015 Corinthia Hotel Tripoli, Tripoli 10 Car bombing, suicide attack and subsequent hostage situation in hotel known for hosting foreigners and government officials. 2015 kidnapping and beheading of Copts in Libya: February 2015 Southern Mediterranean Sea Coast, Sirte: 21
Pages in category "2015 murders in Libya" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. ... 2015 kidnapping and beheading of Copts in Libya
In Minya, 77 cases of sectarian attacks on Copts between 2011 and 2016 were documented by the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights. [54] Coptic Christian women and girls are often abducted and disappear. [55] [56] In 2015, 21 men traveled to Libya to support their families. [57] There, they would be kidnapped and beheaded by the Islamic ...
From 2011 to 2015, during the Libyan civil war, ... and Libya (Copts in Libya), the largest Coptic diaspora population is located within the United States, ...