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| Daesh announces death of senior militant in Egypt’s Sinai | |
| 2018-10-03 | |
| [ARABNEWS] ISIS announced on Tuesday the death of a senior member of the group in Egypt’s Sinai peninsula, according to a social media posting, dealing a blow to snuffies behind a wave of attacks on Egyptian military and civilian targets. The notice, published under the heading "caravan of the Shuhada" or deaders, showed a picture of a smiling young bearded man it identified as Abu Hamza al-Maqdisi.
There was no immediate comment from the Egyptian military on the report, but security sources said Maqdisi died along with two other people early on Monday in an air strike on their vehicle near Sheikh Zweid in northern Sinai. The Egyptian military and police have been conducting an operation in Sinai since February to crush snuffies affiliated with ISIS. The operation came after an attack on a mosque last November that killed hundreds of worshippers. The military has said hundreds of suspected snuffies have been killed as well as dozens of soldiers in the operation, which involves thousands of troops backed by heavy weapons and the air force. | |
| Posted by:Fred |