Thomson Reuters
Military investigator from Russia stands near the debris of a Russian airliner at its crash site at the Hassana area in Arish
The terrorist group also known as ISIS says it brought down the plane with an improvised explosive device, or IED.
The photo of the IED displayed a can of the Schweppes Gold and what appeared to be a detonator amid a blue background.
The magazine, Dabiq, also included a photo of plane debris with images of passports superimposed on top. ISIS claims that the passports belonged to the "dead crusaders."
In an overview of ISIS' "military operations" in the magazine, the group stated that the attack on the Russian airliner was "to show the Russians and whoever allies with them that they will have no safety in the lands and airspace of the Muslims, that their daily killing of dozens in Sham [Syria] through their airstrikes will only bring them calamities, and that just as they kill, they will be killed."
An ISIS affiliate claimed responsibility for downing the plane shortly after the crash, but its central leadership remained mostly silent and didn't provide details on how the group allegedly carried out the attack.
The Metrojet plane, carrying 224 people crashed about 20 minutes after takeoff from Egypt's Sharm el-Sheikh airport. No passengers survived.
Russian officials said this week that a homemade explosive device brought down the plane.
ISIS claims that the attack was retaliation for Russian airstrikes in Syria, where ISIS holds territory.
Two airport employees have reportedly been detained for questioning in connection with the attacks, according to Reuters. An unnamed airport security official told Reuters that the two employees are suspected of helping whoever planed the bomb on the plane.
CCTV footage reportedly "showed a baggage handler carrying a suitcase from an airport building to another man, who was loading luggage onto the doomed airliner from beneath the plane on the runway," according to Reuters.