Egyptian soldiers kill 12 militants in volatile Sinai Peninsula
Egyptian government forces have carried out an operation in the violence-plagued Sinai Peninsula, killing a dozen Takfiri militants there.
The army, in a statement released on Friday, said that the forces launched an offensive against Velayat Sinai militants, previously known as Ansar Bait al-Maqdis, in the town of Sheikh Zuweid, located about 334 kilometers (214 miles) northeast of the capital, Cairo, earlier in the day, killing 12 extremists.
The statement noted that two warehouses storing explosives were also destroyed in the operation.
Later in the day, two police officers sustained injuries when an explosion ripped through their vehicle in the same town.
On July 23, Egypt’s military spokesman Brigadier General Mohammed Samir said on his Facebook page that one officer and three soldiers had been killed when their vehicle struck a roadside bomb in the border town of Rafah, located 340 kilometers (211 miles) east of Cairo.
The Egyptian military views the Sinai Peninsula as a sanctuary for extremists, who use the volatile region as a safe haven.
Gunmen have intensified terrorist attacks in Sinai ever since Mohamed Morsi, Egypt’s first democratically-elected president, was toppled in a July 2013 military coup led by Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, the country’s current president and the then army commander.
Velayat Sinai terrorists have claimed responsibility for most of the attacks in the Sinai Peninsula. Last November, the group pledged allegiance to the ISIL terrorist group, which is wreaking havoc primarily in Iraq and neighboring Syria.
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