IS threatens to execute abducted Croatian

The Egyptian affiliate of the Islamic State group threatened to execute a Croatian man kidnapped in Cairo last month within 48 hours if Muslim women jailed in Egypt are not freed. In a video posted online by the jihadists, the Croatian, who was working for a French company, appears kneeling at the feet of a hooded man holding a knife. He reads from a sheet of paper that he will be executed within 48 hours if the Egyptian government fails to release Muslim women held in prisons. He did not say from when the countdown began. The hostage said he was abducted on July 22 by the Sinai Province group, IS’s Egyptian affiliate.