ISIS used its Aamaq media wing to claim responsibility for the Egyptian attacks that came earlier today, shortly after the terror group had warned it would be increasing attacks against Egypt’s Christians.
“A security detachment of the Islamic State carried out the attacks against the two churches in the cities of Tanta and Alexandria,” said an online statement.
Bombs tore through two Coptic churches in separate Egyptian cities on Palm Sunday, killing at least 40 people and wounding more than 100 in what was the latest assault against the country’s Christian minority. Read more at Slate.
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