Minister insists his countrys planes targeted isis training and storage spaces. These attacks are a response to ghastly footage released by isis which appears to be the beheadings of 21 egyptian christians. Ian lee with more from cairo. Reporter in the Early Morning under the cover of darkness egyptian f16s roar into the night sky. Their target isis Training Camps and weapons depots in libya. The Morning Light reveals the destruction in durna. The mediterranean city close to the egyptian border and 200 miles from the european coast. The air strikes, revenge for the beheading of 21 egyptian christians by isis militants. Translator egypt reserves the right of retaliation. And with the methods and timing it sees fit for rhett bougz, from those murderers and criminals who are without the slightest humanity. Reporter the families urge the government to rescue their loved ones sooner. Now too late. The situation grows increasingly more dangerous. Number one, worst is the place at the border
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Ten days ago. And kurdish fighters told them fighters were trying to infiltrate their defenses. Kurdish source they they inflicted heavy casualties on the militants and even got support from coalition aircraft. For more on the developing situation, lets bring in cnns tim lister, joins us via baby cam from erbil. There have been almost daily attempts by isis to infiltrate toured issue territory kurdish territory. Weve seen this aggressive push which led to close contact fighting. Fighting. S the latest . Reporter theing has died down. The fight doing last overnight for at least five hours. The Kurdish Peshmerga officers i spoke to said they inflicted heavy casualties on the enemy and say there were a lot of foreign fighters amongst these isis eunice that attacked three villages simultaneously. A very accordinated complex attack coordinated complex attack that shows despite months of air strikes and considerable pressure on the ground difficulties in resupplying them isis is still capabl
Bank heists ever. Good morning. Im kate bolduan. John berman is off today. Lets get to it. Egypt is pounding isis targets in libya right now in a second round of military strikes. Thats what egypts state run media is reporting. They believe they killed 21 egyptian christians who moved to libya for work. Several victims were lined up and beheaded. There are also concerns that isis is spreading beyond iraq and syria now. Cnns ian lee is live in cairo. What are you hearing about this second round of air strikes after that horrific propaganda video that isis released . Reporter were hearing from state run media quoting security sources about the second wave of air strikes. We reached out to the military. Right now they say they can neither confirm nor deny there was a second wave of strikes. Very different from earlier this morning when the military released video of their f16s taking off into the cover of night targeting sites in libyan city of derna going after isis Training Facilities a
Well as isis training centers. They made it back safely. The city about 200 miles from the egyptian border on the mediterranean coast. Der na has sent militants in wars, jihadis to fight abroad. This is a city that isis took quickly, recently. Now this video that we saw shows these 21 christians being brought out onto the beach, as you said some saying oh god, jesus, a message from one of the militants giving warning to the christians here in egypt. To the Egyptian Government. Europe libya is on the doorstep. What this video shows most is how isis has a Firm Presence in libya. Last month they attacked a hotel if tripoli, showing how theyre expanding, taking advantage of the political and security void that is libya after the 2011 uprising that tloefr through mow mar go davie backed by the west. For egypt, this is concerning they have iskis militants they are with theling, hundreds of security personnel who have died in that with thele. Now they have another front in libya. Alisyn. Ian,