Today’s actions are an important step in denying them the resources they need to plan and carry out their terrorist activities.”Lewaa al-Thawra is a terrorist group active in Egypt’s Qalyubia and Menoufia governorates. In 2017, the group claimed responsibility for a bombing outside a police training center in Tanta, the State Department said in a statement.It added that Hasm is a terrorist group also active in Egypt. Formed in 2015, the group claimed responsibility for the assassination of Egyptian National Security Agency officer Ibrahim Azzazy, as well as the attempted assassination of Egypt’s former Grand Mufti Ali Gomaa. Hasm also claimed responsibility for a September 30, 2017 attack on Myanmar’s embassy in Cairo. The group operates primarily in Gaza and the West Bank and is led by Hisham Salem, a former leader of the Palestine Islamic Jihad (PIJ), a State Department designated FTO and SDGT.

Source: Egypt Today January 31, 2018 18:22 UTC