Copts in Libya may refer to people born in or residing in Libya of full or partial Coptic origin. Coptic people are an ethnoreligious group that form...

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and most historical Christian denomination in Libya. In 2016, there were over 60,000 Egyptian Copts in Libya, as they comprise over 1% of the population...

Church (Copts in Libya). The Coptic Church is known to have historical roots in Libya long before the Arabs advanced westward from Egypt into Libya. The...

minority, although many Copts in Sudan are descended from more recent Coptic immigrants from Egypt. Copts in Sudan live mostly in northern cities, including...

This list of Copts includes notable Copts figures who are notable in their areas of expertise. For saints, please refer to List of Coptic saints. Rami...

Security Agency's response to the 2015 kidnapping and beheading of Copts in Libya. Ahmed El Sakka as Ali El Masry Amr Abdulgalil Kosai Khauli Hend Sabry...

Copts in Egypt refers to Coptic Christians born in or residing in Egypt. As of 2019, Copts were generally estimated to comprise approximately 10 percent...

as in Sudan and Libya. Copts account for roughly 5 to 15 percent of the population of Egypt. Originally referring to all Egyptians, the term Copt became...

denomination in Libya. There are about 60,000 Egyptian Copts in Libya. There are three Coptic Churches in Libya, one in Tripoli, one in Benghazi, and one in Misurata...

provinces. By June 2015, IS had also established official "provinces" in Libya, Egypt (Sinai Peninsula), Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Algeria, Afghanistan, Pakistan...

consists of Copts who live outside of their primary area of residence within parts of present-day Egypt, Libya and Sudan. The number of Copts outside Egypt...

fighters going to IS. The 2015 kidnapping and beheading of 21 Egyptian Copts in Libya for being "people of the cross, followers of the hostile Egyptian [Coptic]...

both educated middle-class Copts and poorer, more rural Copts. As of 2018, it was estimated that a half-million Copts lived in the United States. The historic...

Islamic State leaders. In 2024, a United States airstrike in Somalia and coinciding claims by anonymous officials resulted in speculations about Islamic...

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Embassy in Tunis on 14 September 2012, three days after Ansar's Libyan counterparts killed US ambassador J. Christopher Stevens in Benghazi, Libya. When...

truck into a crowd on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, then exited the truck and engaged in a shootout with police before being...

of the Syrian war. In Libya, the group operates mostly as a moving insurgent force, occupying places before abandoning them again. In Egypt, the group controls...

The Libyan Civil War (2014–2020), also known as the Second Libyan Civil War, was a multilateral civil war which was fought in Libya among a number of...

prolonged conflict in Iraq lasting from 2003 to 2011. It began with the invasion by a United States-led coalition, which resulted in the overthrow of the...

28-year-old Norwegian woman, were found decapitated in the foothills of Mount Toubkal near to the village of Imlil in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco. A total of...

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magazine Dabiq showing photos of 21 Egyptian Copts migrant workers that they had kidnapped in the city of Sirte, Libya, and whom they threatened to kill to "avenge...

Syrian civil war. In later years, there were also minor interventions by some states against IS-affiliated groups in Nigeria and Libya. All these efforts...

Libya Province (Arabic: ولاية ليبيا, romanized: Wilayah Libya) was a militant Islamist group active in Libya under three branches: Fezzan Province in...

around 12 captives were held on the coast in eastern Libya, while the other group of around 16 was held in a desert. The video threatened the killing...

E. Kidnapping and beheading of Copts in Libya February 16, 2,015 C.E. — ongoing Egyptian military intervention in Libya Birley, Anthony. Septimius Severus...

resulted in the death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the then-leader and self-proclaimed caliph of the Islamic State. The operation took place in the outskirts...

as the leader of the Islamic State in Somalia. He was formerly a senior religious authority in al-Shabaab. Born in Qandala, Puntland, Somalia to a Majerteen...