[IsraelTimes] An Egyptian army captain has been killed by an improvised bomb blast in North Sinai during a campaign to eliminate jihadists, medics said on Monday.The officer died Sunday evening after an kaboom hit his vehicle west of the coastal city of El-Arish, a local medical source said.
The Egyptian army has since February been conducting a major operation focused on the Sinai Peninsula to wipe out jihadists from 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.
The military says that over 250 suspected jihadists and at least 35 soldiers have been killed in its "Sinai 2018" operation.