Army units affiliated to the second field army launched a military sweeping operation on Tuesday in some regions in North Sinai that left six militants killed. The campaign targeted militants and other suspects who are involved in terrorising civilians in North Sinai’s cities. “Army forces also managed to blow up a storage that contained motorbikes used by militants, as well as detonating four Improvised Explosive Devices (IED) that had been prepared to be used against army and police forces moving around North Sinai,” the army spokesperson’s statement read. Since 2013, state security forces represented in both the army and the police, have been engaged in violent clashes with ‘Sinai Province,’ known previously as Ansar Beit Al-Maqdis. Over the course of the last two years, the Egyptian armed forces launched counterattacks against militant stationing points across the Sinai Peninsula, where the group is based particularly in the cities of Sheikh Zuweid, Rafah, and Al-Arish.

Source: Daily News Egypt March 01, 2017 12:23 UTC