WorldNews Posted February 24, 2015 Posted February 24, 2015 [attach=full]17973[/attach]Almost 15,000 Egyptians have flocked home from war-torn Libya via the border crossing at Sallum, state media reported Monday, after Islamic State group jihadists murdered 21 Coptic Christians. Last week Egyptian and Libyan warplanes hit IS targets inside Libya after the jihadists released a gruesome video on February 15 showing the Christians, 20 of them Egyptian, being beheaded. Cairo has since urged the hundreds of thousands of Egyptians working in Libya to leave, and also chartered planes to fly many of them home from Tunisia, Libya's western neighbour. At least 14,585 have heeded the call and returned through Sallum in northwest Egypt, state news agency MENA reported. Continue reading... Quote
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