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| Mortar Fire Kills Two Children in Egypt's Sinai |
| 2015-04-22 |
| [AnNahar] Mortar fire killed two five-year-old boys Monday in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, officials said, hours after a bomb killed three soldiers in the area where troops are fighting an Islamist insurgency. Mortar rounds struck a residential area south of the town of Sheikh Zuweid in North Sinai late on Monday in which the two boys were killed, medics said. Earlier a roadside kaboom struck an armored military vehicle on the Egyptian side of the divided city of Rafah on the Gazoo border, killing an army officer and two soldiers. Another soldier was also maimed when the bomb hit the vehicle in the Tawil al-Amir district. Jihadists who have pledged allegiance to the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group, which controls swathes of Iraq and Syria, said they carried out the kaboom. "We blew up an armoured vehicle of the apostate army and everyone inside was killed," IS Sinai Province said on a Twitter account attributed to the group. In a separate incident, four IS fighters were killed when they attempted to attack a checkpoint in North Sinai's scenic provincial capital of El-Arish, police said. The army meanwhile said on its Facebook page that 57 "terrorists" were killed over the past 10 days in festivities with security forces in the peninsula. Formerly known as Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, the IS group has carried out repeated deadly attacks on the security forces in its peninsula stronghold. The attacks have come despite stringent security measures imposed by the army in the province, including a night-time curfew and the creation of a buffer zone along the Gazoo border to prevent bully boyz infiltrating from the Paleostinian territory. |
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