Today’s actions are an important step in denying them the resources they need to plan and carry out their terrorist activities,” U.S. Secretary General said in a statement.Lewaa al-Thawra is a terrorist group that is mostly active in Egypt’s Qalyubia and Menoufia governorates.After announcing its formation in August 2016, the group claimed responsibility for the October 2016 assassination of Brigadier General Adel Ragai, commander of the Egyptian army’s Ninth Armored Division, outside his home in Cairo. In 2017, the group claimed responsibility for a bombing outside a police training center in Tanta, the State Department said in a statement.Hasm's beginnings date back to July 2016, when the group claimed responsibility for the killing of a senior policeman named Mahmoud Abdel Hamid in Fayoum. Hamid was the head of the investigations department in Fayoum’s Tamya district.In Arabic, the word “hasm” means decisiveness. Lately, Hasm has been associated with nearly every terrorist attack in Egypt during the last year. However, the Islamic State terrorist group has been responsible for nearly three major attacks.

Source: Egypt Today February 01, 2018 15:00 UTC