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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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]...

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...

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

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

The succession to Muhammad in 632 led the Muslims to be split into two camps, the Sunnis, who believed that the caliphs of the Islamic community should...

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...

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

action film based on the actual events of the massacre of 21 Egyptian Copts in Libya and the ensuing Egyptian military operations against the responsible...

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...

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

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...

Mateen shot and killed 49 people and wounded 53 more in a mass shooting at Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, United States before Orlando Police...

the Jordanian national Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in Jordan in 1999. Al-Zarqawi led the group, until his death in June 2006. Jama'at fought the American occupation...

According to Turkish claims, Abu al-Hussein al-Husseini joined the Islamic State in early 2013. He took over leadership after the death of the previous leader...

strike in Raqqa, Syria. His death was confirmed by IS in January 2016. Emwazi was born Muhammad Jassim Abdulkarim Olayan al-Dhafiri on 17 August 1988 in Kuwait...