ISIS claims attack on Egyptian Coptic Christians

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A funeral service in Minya, Egypt, for victims of an ISIS attack Associated Press/Photo by Amr Nabil

ISIS claims attack on Egyptian Coptic Christians

Islamic State (ISIS) said today its “soldiers” carried out an attack on a bus full of Christians in Egypt on Friday that killed 29 people on their way to visit a monastery. Meanwhile, the Egyptian military Friday bombed militant bases affiliated with al-Qaeda in Libya in retaliation for the bombing. Egyptian President Abdel Fatah el-Sisi told the country’s Coptic Christian Pope Tawadros II in a phone call that the government would not rest until the terrorists responsible for the attack were punished.

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