Egyptian warplanes on May 26 carried out air-strikes on what President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi called six "terrorist training camps" in Libya after a new massacre of Coptic Christians earlier in the day. The latest of a series of bloody attacks on Copts in Egypt came as Christians were headed to the Saint Samuel Monastery [7], near the city of Minya, some 220 kilometers south of Cairo. Masked gunmen cut off the bus in three pick-up trucks, and opened fire before fleeing the scene. At least 28 people were killed, many of them children. The retaliatory air-strikes apparently struck locations of the Mujahedeen Shura Council [8] in Libya's eastern city of Derna. (Al Arabiya [9], BBC News [10], France24 [11], Egyptian Streets [12], Al Jazeera [13])
Foreign powers, including Egypt [14], have been sporadically bombing [15] targets in Libya for months. Some air-strikes in Libya have been claimed by no power, and remain mysterious [16]. Previous attacks on Egyptian Christians have been claimed by ISIS [17], but the Mujahedeen Shura Council is currently at war [18] with the Islamic State.
