Islamic State Claims Sinai Attack That Killed/Wounded 15 Egyptian Soldiers

Military armoured vehicle securing worshippers outside a mosque in Bir Al-Abed, northern Sinai, Egypt, December 1, 2017.Mohamed Abd El Ghany/Reuters

Times of Israel/AFP: Egypt: 7 Sinai jihadists killed, 15 soldiers dead or wounded in attack

Army spokesman says troops engaged in an ‘exchange of fire’ with gunmen at checkpoint in restive North Sinai, where forces are battling IS

CAIRO — Egypt’s army said Saturday seven suspected jihadists were “eliminated” and 15 soldiers killed or wounded in an attack in the Sinai Peninsula, where troops are fighting the Islamic State jihadist group.

Security forces responded to the attack on a checkpoint in restive North Sinai with an “exchange of fire,” army spokesman Tamer el-Refai said in a statement.

“An officer and 14 non-commissioned soldiers were killed or wounded,” he added, without giving a precise number for the dead.

Medical sources in North Sinai told AFP that 11 soldiers were killed in the attack.

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More News On Yesterday's Islamic State Attack That Killed/Wounded 15 Egyptian Soldiers In The Sinai

ISIS claims North Sinai attack, says 20 Egyptian troops killed -- Al Arabiya/Reuters
Militant attack kills and wounds 15 soldiers in Egypt's Sinai -- The National
N. Sinai Terrorist Attack on Egyptian Military Results in 15 Casualties -- VOA
Egypt's military kills 7 terrorists in a shootout in North Sinai: Spox -- Ahram Online

Egypt’s President Orders Army And Police To Restore Order In Sinai In Three Months

Ahram Online: Egypt's Sisi orders army, police to restore order in Sinai with 'utmost force' in three months

Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi on Wednesday ordered the Egyptian army and police forces to restore stability and security in the Sinai Peninsula within three months using "utmost force."

The president's command came during his speech at a public celebration of the Prophet Muhammad's birth (Moulid El-Nabi) at Al-Azhar's conference center in Cairo.

The event was attended by tens of Azhar clerics and public officials and including Minister of Religious Endowments Mohamed Mokhtar Gomaa, the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Ahmed El-Tayyeb, Minister of Interior Magdy Abdel-Ghaffar, and the newly appointed Army Chief of Staff, Mohamed Farid Hegazi.

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More News On Egyptian President El-Sisi Ordering The Army And Police To Restore Order In Sinai In Three Months

Egypt mosque attack: Sisi gives military three months to secure Sinai -- BBC
Egypt's Sisi calls on military chief to secure Sinai in three months -- Reuters
Egypt President Gives Forces 3 Months to Calm Restive Sinai -- VOA/AP
Egypt's Sisi tells army to restore Sinai security in 3 months -- AFP
Egypt’s El-Sisi Orders ‘Brute Force’ Operation to Pacify Sinai -- Bloomberg
Army must restore Sinai security in three months, Egypt's Sisi says -- The National
Sisi OKs 'Brute Force' in Military Crackdown After Sinai Mosque Attack -- Al-Bawaba
Sinai carnage presses Egypt to seek new alliance with tribes -- Reuters

26 Egyptian Soldiers Killed In Sinai Suicide Attack And Subsequent Gun Battle. 40 Militants Reported Killed

Al Jazeera: Egypt: 26 soldiers killed in Sinai suicide attack

At least 26 soldiers killed in suicide bombing at army checkpoint near Rafah in northern Sinai, security sources say.

At least 26 Egyptian soldiers including a colonel were killed in a suicide bomb attack on an army checkpoint in northern Sinai, according to security sources.

Another 40 fighters were killed in a subsequent gun battle with soldiers at the checkpoint, an army spokesperson said on Friday.

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WNU Editor: Apparently the Egyptian forces were able to respond .... Egyptian Security Forces Kill 40 Militants in North Sinai Car Bomb Attacks (Sputnik). This appears to have been a huge battle with heavy casualties on both sides.

More News On Today's Attack In The Sinai

26 Soldiers Killed or Wounded in Sinai Attacks -- Asharq Al-awsat
Egypt soldiers killed in attack on Sinai checkpoint -- BBC
23 killed in blitz car bomb attack in Egypt’s Sinai -- Washington Post/AP
At least 23 Egyptian soldiers killed in deadliest Sinai attack in years -- Reuters
At least 23 Egyptian soldiers killed in attack on Sinai checkpoint -- The Guardian
Sinai suicide bombing kills 26 Egyptian soldiers -- Gulf Times/Reuters/AFP
23 killed in car bomb attack at military checkpoint in Egypt's Sinai. -- L.A. Times
Car bombs in Egypt's Sinai target soldiers, military says -- CNN

Suicide Bomb Attack Kills Ten Police Officers In Sinai

An Egyptian military vehicle is seen on the highway in northern Sinai, Egypt, in this May 25, 2015 (Photo: Reuters)

AFP: Truck bomb kills 9 police in Egypt’s Sinai

A truck bomb attack on an Egyptian security checkpoint in the Sinai Peninsula killed at least nine policemen on Monday, officials and state media said.

Police officials said a suicide bomber rammed a truck packed with explosives into the checkpoint in the north Sinai city of El-Arish and gunmen then opened fire on the security post.

ISIS’s Egyptian branch in the Sinai Peninsula has carried out several such attacks over the past two years.

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More News On Today's Suicide Terror Attack In Sinai

Militants attack checkpoint in Egypt's Sinai, killing 8 -- AP
Death toll from Sinai checkpoint attack rises to 10 -- Al Bawaba
Truck bomb kills several in Sinai's El-Arish -- Al Jazeera
Egypt police station suicide attack kills eight in Sinai -- BBC
Eight policemen killed in two North Sinai checkpoint attacks -- Ahram Online
Egypt: Truck bomb attack targeting security services in Sinai kills ten -- International Business Times
Death Toll in Sinai Police Checkpoint Attack Rises to Nine -- Sputnik

Islamic State Vows To Destroy Egypt's Pyramids And The Sphinx

Reuters / Amr Abdallah Dalsh

National Post: ISIL vows to demolish the pyramids and the sphinx amid wave of attacks on Egyptian forces

As tensions rise in Egypt, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant is calling for the nation’s cultural icons, like the pyramids and the sphinx, should be destroyed.

ISIL leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi reportedly said destroying the monuments was a “religious duty.”

British Muslim political activist Anjem Choudary told the Telegraph: “When Egypt comes under the auspices of the Khalifa (Caliphate), there will be no more Pyramids, no more Sphinx, no more idolatry. This will be just.”

Update #1: ISIS wants to destroy Egypt's Sphinx and pyramids -- Business Insider
Update #2: ISIS: Destroying Egypt’s Sphinx, Pyramids Is ‘Religious Duty’ -- Breitbart

WNU Editor: I warned about this 3 years ago .... The Shape Of Things To Come In Egypt?

Egypt Launches Airstrikes On Islamic State Targets In Libya

Daily Mail: Egypt retaliates with air strikes after ISIS marches 21 Coptic Christians along a lonely Libyan beach and beheads them en masse for their faith

* Egyptian warplanes struck Islamic State targets in eastern Libya today
* There were at least seven airstrikes in the Islamist-held city of Derna
* Strikes come after ISIS-affiliated militants murdered 21 Egyptians in Libya
* Militants last night released video showing the Coptic Christians' murder
* Men were paraded on a beach by masked killed before savage beheadings
* Egyptian government last night vowed 'to avenge the bloodshed and to seek retribution from the killers'
* Pope Francis has expressed his 'profound sadness' over the Libya killings
* He said the victims had been murdered 'for nothing other than their faith'

More News On Egypt Launching Airstrikes On Islamic State Targets In Libya

Egypt bombs Islamic State targets in Libya after 21 Egyptians beheaded -- Reuters
Egypt strikes IS group in Libya after video of mass killing -- AP
Egypt bombs IS in Libya after beheadings video -- BBC
Egyptian, Libyan Airstrikes Target IS in Libya -- VOA
Libya prime minister calls for international strikes on Islamists -- Reuters
Libya's 'Islamist' Parliament Blasts Egypt's Anti-ISIL Airstrikes -- Sputnik
Tripoli-based parliament says Egyptian strike assault on sovereignty: spokesman -- Reuters
Egypt calls for coalition to fight 'Islamic State'-linked Libya militants -- Deutsche Welle
Egypt calls for anti-Islamic State coalition to confront militants in Libya -- Reuters
Local Copts ‘now under threat from ISIS sympathisers’ -- The Australian
Egypt strikes back, but how far will ISIS fight go? -- Eman El-Shenawi, Al Arabiya News