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Seven terrorists killed; 1 officer and 4 soldiers killed: Egypt’s Armed Forces
[AlAhram] An officer and four soldiers were killed, and two other soldiers were maimed on Wednesday morning while intercepting the movement of a group of Death Eaters in the vicinity of a security checkpoint, the Armed Forces said in a statement.The Armed Forces added that the "heroic operations" of the law enforcement forces led to the death of seven terrorists. The incident comes amid a more comprehensive operation, which has been ongoing since Saturday 7 May in the isolated areas adjacent to the national border, against terrorist forces in response to the killing of Egyptian security personnel and in line with the national constants of the Armed Forces in maintaining the security and stability of the country, according to the statement. The army stated that another seven bad boyz were potted in an air raid at a terrorist hideout on Wednesday dawn, adding that earlier on Saturday an air strike was launched killing nine Death Eaters and destroying a number of terrorist hideouts. The army confiscated a number of automatic guns, ammunition, hand grenades and wireless devices as well as other weapons during the raid on Wednesday. On Sunday, the Islamic State  ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group grabbed credit for the 7 May attack in which an officer and 10 soldiers were killed. The rate of terrorist attacks in North Sinai has declined in the past few years following massive and successive security and military operations. The Islamic State’s branch in North Sinai, formerly known as Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, ...back when they were the local branch of Al Qaeda, before they became the Sinai Province of the more fashionable ISIS... has grabbed credit for several attacks in North Sinai in the past decade.The operation on Saturday was the first major terrorist attack in Egypt in recent years. In 2018, the Armed Forces launched a major counter-terrorist drive, dubbed Comprehensive Operation Sinai 2018, that succeeded in almost eradicating terrorism from North Sinai as well as the Nile Delta and desert areas.
Jihadist fighters attacked at dawn, an army front man said in a statement. "One officer and four soldiers were killed and two other soldiers were maimed," the statement read, adding that seven jihadists were killed. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for Wednesday’s attack, which was announced by the military as Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi met with US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan. Posted by: trailing wife 2022-05-12 |
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