Egypt arming Sinai tribesmen in fight against Islamic State
[IsraelTimes] Bedouin forces to man checkpoints, accompany military patrols deep inside the peninsula where their local knowledge gives them an advantage
In a remote outpost in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, Ibrahim Abu-Sefira watches a mountainous skyline of jagged rock, ears tuned to the twilight silence, listening for any signs a fragile peace may be disturbed.
An elder from the Bedouin Tayaha tribe, he has seen armies, both Egyptian and Israeli, pass through this vast desert. Now the area is the center of a yearslong, bloody conflict between the Egyptian military and a local affiliate of the Islamic State
Posted by: trailing wife 2018-09-28 |