ISIS Sinai leader Abu Dua al-Ansari was killed in Al Arish, the sources said. Egypt’s military wrote on its Facebook page that its airstrikes also killed 45 ISIS fighters and ammunition depots used by the group, Reuters reported. He helped organize ISIS activities in the region including attacks against U.N. personnel in their Sinai base, investigators said. DEVELOPING: The leader of the Islamic State’s operations in the volatile Sinai Peninsula and mastermind of the October 2015 attack on a Russian airliner in the region that left 224 dead has been killed by Egypt’s air force, intelligence sources told Fox News Thursday. A post on the Facebook page of the military's chief spokesman, Brig-Gen Mohammed Samir, said al-Ansari was killed in an operation guided by "accurate intelligence."

Source: Fox News August 04, 2016 18:09 UTC