Targeted by ISIS, Egyptian Christians Flee Violence

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Although they have been subjected to increasing violence in recent years, the Islamic State campaign is an alarming turn.
The Islamic State affiliate in Sinai is small compared with Iraq or Syria, but it has been increasingly active in recent weeks.
?As the Islamic State comes under pressure in Iraq and Syria, it has to show movement on other fronts,? said Zack Gold, a nonresident fellow at the Atlantic Council, an international affairs research organization.
PhotoCAIRO ? Dozens of Egyptian Christian families fled their homes in the northern Sinai Peninsula on Friday, driven by a targeted campaign of Islamist violence that has killed at least seven people in recent weeks.
Coptic Christians in Egypt, who account for about 10 percent of the country?s population, are the largest Christian community in the Middle East.