The Egyptian foreign ministry has condemned the beheading of British hostage David Haines,who was kidnapped by ISIS militants in Syria last year. "This was a barbaric and terrible act that is totally incompatible with the teachings of the Islamic religion," the statement said. Foreign ministry spokesperson Badr Abdel-Ati stressed the importance of international cooperation to combat terrorism. On Saturday, US Secretary of State John Kerry met with Egypt`s president Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi to discuss plans for an international anti-terrorism coalition. Haines is the third Westerner beheaded in recent weeks by ISIS, which has seized wide swaths of territory in Syria and Iraq. The group killed a US journalist, James Foley, last month, before it beheaded another journalist, Steven Sotloff, earlier this month. http://english.ahram.org.eg/News/110714.aspx