President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi wants UN to authorize world powers to intervene in Libya

#ISIS #copticchristian #egypt #libya #derna The whole world has been appalled by the brutal killing of 21 Egyptian Christians at the hands of the ISIS and President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi wants a United Nations resolution that would allow international forces to intervene in Libya as reported in bbc.com dated 17 February 2015.
President al-Sisi has apparently told the French radio that there was no other choice and that Egypt cannot be a silent spectator to such brutalities. ‘We will not allow them to cut off the heads of our children’, is how he put it. He has demanded that weapons should be made available to Libya's internationally recognized government, which had fled to Tobruk after rival militias seized power in the capital.
Subsequent to the release of the militant video of the apparent beheadings of 21 Egyptian Christians, Egyptian jets have carried out bombing of IS targets. The targets had been Islamic State camps, training sites and weapons storage areas near the city of Derna. As per military sources, the strikes would continue and there was no need for ground troops at present.
It may be noted that Libya is home to a large community of both Muslim and Coptic Egyptians and a majority of them work there in the construction sector.

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