The Egyptian military said Monday it has bombed ISIS targets in Libya after the militant group released a video that appeared to show the mass beheadings of Coptic Christians.
"The airstrikes hit their targets accurately and our eagles returned to their bases safely," a statement reported on Egyptian state television said.
The footage of the beheadings of at least a dozen men on a beach, which carries many of the hallmarks of previous ISIS hostage execution videos, has deepened international concerns about ISIS' growing reach into countries beyond its strongholds in Syria and Iraq.
The killings of the Egyptian Christians are believed to have been carried out by a Libyan affiliate of ISIS.
Egypt's President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi on Sunday confirmed in a statement that Egyptian "martyrs" had fallen victim to terrorism and expressed his condolences to the Egyptian people.
Twenty-one Egyptian Christians were kidnapped in the Libyan coastal city of Sirte in two separate incidents in December and January. Officials said all of them were believed to have been killed.
Source CNN
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