A Libyan militant group affiliated with Islamic State group released defiantly pictures on their website Monday that purportedly shows a number of the Egyptian Coptic Christians recently kidnapped in Libya. The group announced its intention to kill all 21 of their hostages being held at an unknown location in Libya. On January 3, militants stormed a residential complex west of the Libyan city of Sirte that included a number of Egyptians. Reports stated that these 13 of the 21 Copts were from a village in Egypt's Minya governorate.