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After almost 24 hours passed in which no group claimed responsibility for the mass slaughter of over 28 Coptic Christians on a pilgrimage in Egypt, ISIS have claimed responsibility for the attack.
READ MORE: Coptic Christians slaughtered in Egypt on pilgrimage to monastery
Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi claimed that the terrorists were trained in Libya and bombed their positions near Libya’s border with Egypt in retaliation for the attack.

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Residents carry the body of several civilians killed in a US air strike in Mosul, Iraq on March 24, 2017. (AP/Felipe Dana)
Pentagon officials announced Thursday the completion of an investigation confirming that a U.S. airstrike in Mosul against the Islamic State group killed at least 105 civilians, AFP reported. They maintain, however, that the high civilian toll resulted from a secondary explosion of Islamic State group explosives stored in the building.

(MEE) Gunmen attacked a group of Coptic Christians as they were driving to a monastery south of Cairo on Friday, killing 26 and wounding a further 26, medical sources and witnesses said.
The group was traveling in two buses and a truck through the province, which is home to a sizeable Christian minority, he said.
An interior ministry spokesman said the attack was carried out by unidentified gunmen in three four-wheel-drive vehicles.

RT | May 26, 2017 In the 16-year war on terrorism, we have seen the predictable and consistent increase in terrorism, the creation of ISIS, and the expansion of ISIS, says David Swanson, anti-war activist and author of War Is A Lie. A US investigation found over a hundred Iraqi civilians died in a Coalition […]

(ANTIWAR.COM) Just a day after they bombed a village in the Mayadeen area, near the ISIS capital of Raqqa, US warplanes launched yet more airstrikes, and once again the indications out of the area is that everyone slain in the attacks was a civilian, bringing the two-day toll in excess of 50.

Press TV – May 26, 2017 Hundreds of people have fled the Philippines’ southern city of Marawi as military forces fight to drive Takfiri militants out of the city. Foreign militants from Indonesia and Malaysia are recruited by a militant group engaged in battles with the Philippine army in Maraqi, on Mindanao Island, Manila’s Solicitor-General […]

The destruction in Maysaloun school in #Tabqah after several U.S. ِairstrikes in Raqqa, Syria. (Photo: Twitter @Raqqa_SL)
Just a day after they bombed a village in the Mayadeen area, near the ISIS capital of Raqqa, US warplanes launched yet more airstrikes, and once again the indications out of the area is that everyone slain in the attacks was a civilian, bringing the two-day toll in excess of 50.

Britain’s Labour opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn has delivered a speech in which he blamed current and past British foreign policy for the proliferation of terrorism in the United Kingdom.
Last year, Corbyn was elected leader of the historically left-wing Labour Party which under Tony Blair moved to the neo-liberal/pro-war spectrum of politics. Corbyn’s socialist policies have earned him the ire of British mainstream media including the state-owned British Broadcasting Corporation.

Egypt’s Coptic Christians once again find themselves under attack from radical Islamists.
Today, at least 28 were killed and over 26 were injured when terrorists shot at Christians on a pilgrimage to the Anba Samuel Monastery near the city of Minya.
Between 8 and 10 heavily armed terrorists surrounded the bus in trucks before opening fire and slaughtering the unarmed Christian martyrs.