On February 12, 2015, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) released a report in which online magazine used by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) for islam and recruitment, showing photos of 21 Egyptian Coptic Christian construction workers who that they had kidnapped in the city of Sirte, Libya, and whom they threatened to kill?
2015 kidnapping and beheading of Copts in Libya On February 12, 2015, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) released a report in their online magazine "Dabiq" showing photos of 21 Egyptian Coptic Christian construction workers who 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". The men, who came from different villages in Egypt, 13 of them from Al-Our, Minya Governorate, were kidnapped in Sirte in two separate attacks on December 27, 2014, and in January 2015. This was not the first time that Egyptians in Libya have been the subject of abuse for political reasons, a pattern that goes back to the 1950s.
Deir ez-Zor offensive (April–July 2014) The Deir ez-Zor offensive (April–July 2014) was executed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, also known as ISIS, against all other opposition forces in the Deir ez-Zor Governorate as part of the Inter-rebel conflict during the Syrian Civil War.