Cairo, Feb 9, 2020 – Militants killed and wounded seven Egyptian soldiers in restive North Sinai on Sunday, Egypt’s military said. Egypt has struggled to contain an insurgency in North Sinai that escalated after the military’s 2013 ouster of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi following mass protests. In February 2018, Egyptian security forces launched a nationwide, large-scale operation against militants, mainly focused on North Sinai. Earlier this month, the Islamic State group claimed it blew up a gas pipeline in Sinai connecting Egypt to Israel. More than 840 suspected militants have been killed in the region since February 2018, according to army figures.

Source: The North Africa Journal February 10, 2020 14:15 UTC