Category: Egypt
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Attack on Sinai checkpoint kills 11 Egyptian troops
Egypt’s military said Saturday that at least 11 troops, including an officer, were been killed in a militant attack in the northern part of the Sinai Peninsula. The military said the militants attacked a water pumping station on Saturday, east of the Suez Canal. The statement said security forces clashed with the attacking militants. It says…
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Seven Sinai militants killed after air strike in Egypt
On Thursday the Egyptian army said it killed seven militants in an air strike in the Sinai peninsula less than a week after jihadists downed a military helicopter in the restive region. The army said that the air strike targeted four houses of treacherous extremists linked to the muslim brotherhood group south of the north…