Islam's Al-Azhar slams Egyptian Copts' 'barbaric' killing

Sunni Islam's top body, Al-Azhar has condemned the "barbaric" beheading of several Egyptian Coptic Christians in Libya shown by the Islamic State group in a video posted online.

"Al-Azhar received the news of the execution of a group of innocent Egyptians with great sorrow and grief," Al-Azhar said in a statement yesterday.

"Al-Azhar stresses that such barbaric action has nothing to do with any religion or human values.