U.S. Rushes Troops To Egypt's Sinai To Boost Security After Islamic State Attacks

Nancy Youssef, Daily Beast: U.S. Rushes Reinforcements to Egypt After ISIS Attack

ISIS is now targeting peacekeepers in Sinai; the latest bomb hurt four U.S. troops. The Pentagon is sending more aid—but there’s talk of pulling out in the face of the threat.

The U.S. military is shipping more troops and more equipment to Egypt’s restive Sinai Peninsula after an ISIS attack that injured four American troops there.

In the last week, the Pentagon authorized the shipment of additional high-caliber weapons, surveillance towers, Bradley fighting vehicles, and medical equipment to bolster security for the 1,600 U.S. and UN troops tasked with ensuring Egypt and Israel abide by the 1979 peace treaty, The Daily Beast has learned. Much of that equipment is now en route in the northern edge of the peninsula.

An additional 75 American troops have also been given orders to head to Sinai.

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