CAIRO—Vehicles packed with explosives blew up at military checkpoints in Egypt’s northeastern Sinai on Friday in deadly, apparently orchestrated, attacks that could intensify criticism of President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi. No group claimed responsibility for the attacks on the edge of the city of Rafah, near Egypt’s border with Israel and the Gaza Strip. An army spokesman said, however, that government forces killed 40 militants who...

Source: Wall Street Journal July 07, 2017 14:15 UTC