Egypt's affiliate of the Islamic State jihadist group has beheaded two alleged Egyptian army spies, posting photos of the horrific killings online.
The gruesome photos were circulated on Twitter accounts affiliated with the Sinai Province group late Thursday and were deemed authentic by 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."
Sinai Province, Egypt's most lethal militant group, has been waging an insurgency in the restive peninsula that has killed hundreds of soldiers and policemen since the military toppled Islamist president Mohamed Morsi in 2013.
The group has claimed some of the deadliest attacks including the downing of a Russian passenger jet over Sinai last October which killed all 224 people on board.
