FILE - Chairman of the National Security Parliament Committee, Kamal AmerSecurity services have been intensified and a larger number of security forces have been deployed at fixed checkpoints, February 9, 2018 - Press PhotoEgypt's ground troops in a full-scale offensive against militants in North and Central Sinai on Friday, February 9,2018- Phoro courtesy of the Armed Forces Spokesperson's Facebook pageCAIRO – 9 January 2018: “Egypt undoubtedly will defeat terrorism. This is just the start, one step on our long way towards achieving Sinai development plan,” Chairman of the National Security Parliament Committee, Major General Kamal Amer, told Egypt Today in an interview about the ‘Comprehensive Operation Sinai 2018.’Despite the fact that Egypt’s Armed Forces launched a lot of operations before; this operation is considered as a ‘turning point’ in the country’s battle against terrorism according to Amer. “They gave the army and police forces extremely valuable information about the terrorist’s locations and forms. The government was sure that whatever it was trying to do for the reconstruction of Sinai, the terrorist groups would try to destroy it. “They are targeting our infrastructure and security.

Source: Egypt Today February 09, 2018 20:15 UTC