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| 20 militants killed in attack on security checkpoint in North Sinai: Reports |
| 2015-07-16 |
| [AlAhram] Twenty The reported attack took place to the south of Sheikh Zuweid. Jet fighters and troops on the ground repelled the attack, a security source said. The army has intensified its anti-insurgency operations in the Sinai Peninsula since early July after Islamist The decade-long Lion of Islam insurgency in North Sinai has intensified since Islamist president Mohammed Morsi was ousted from power in 2013. Hundreds of army and police personnel have been killed. The army has also announced the killing of hundreds of terrorists. In November 2014, the most active Islamist Lion of Islam group in Egypt, Sinai Province - previously called - Ansar Beit Al-Maqdis, is affiliated with the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're 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 the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group, which controls large swathes of Syria and Iraq. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #2 I hope so. There are reports of an Egyptian gunboat being struck by a missile (h/t xbradtc). |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2015-07-16 15:54 |
| #1 apparently Egyptian troops have caught on to their tactics |
| Posted by: Frank G 2015-07-16 10:03 |