The Egyptian affiliate of the Islamic State group claims it has beheaded two men in Sinai for “spying” for the Egyptian army, posting photos online of the killings.
The photos were circulated on Twitter accounts affiliated with the Ansar Beit Al-Maqdis group late on Thursday.
The claims were reported by the US-based monitor SITE Intelligence Group.
In the captions accompanying the photos, one of the men, named as Walid Ahmed Amer, is described as “a spy for the army intelligence” and the second man, Mostafa Zeraa Salmi, as “a spy for the army.”
Ansar Beit Al-Maqdis, Egypt’s most lethal militant group, has led an insurgency based in North Sinai that spiked following the 2013 ouster of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi.
The group has claimed some of the deadliest attacks since 2013, including claiming the downing of a Russian passenger jet over Sinai last October. The official investigation into the crash has yet to reach any conclusions regarding the cause of the crash, which killed all 224 people on board.
The group has sworn allegiance to the Islamic State group.
source: Ahram Online
