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Africa North
IS Steps up Sinai Fight with Bombs in Civilian Homes
2020-12-10
[AnNahar] Residents of Egypt's restive North Sinai region ran for their lives when an 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group affiliate occupied their villages.
Back when they were affiliated with Al Qaeda, they called themselves Ansar Bayt al Maqdis/Al Qaeda in the Sinai. After they switched allegiance to ISIS, they eventually called themselves ISIS in the Sinai Province (Wilayat Sinai) and Sheikh Omar Hadid Brigade in Gaza...
Now, they are returning to find their homes booby-trapped.
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