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Africa North

Militants attack security checkpoint in Egypt

2022-12-31

Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

Al Ahram doesn’t have anything on this as of the midnight publication. We’ll see if anything shows up during the day.

[REGNUM] At least two policemen died December 30 as a result of an attack by militants in the city of Ismailia, east of the Egyptian capital Cairo, Reuters reported, citing local authorities and the Egyptian Interior Ministry.

The bandits drove up to the national security checkpoint and opened fire. One passer-by was also killed.

In addition, the militants wounded two more police officers. Representatives of law enforcement agencies specified that one of the shooters was killed, and the second managed to escape.

As REGNUM reported , in mid-September, in the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt, terrorists blew up a car, killing one of the heads of the local pro-government militia.

Reuters: Militants attack checkpoint east of Cairo, kill two policemen

Update from Al Ahram at noon ET:

Four killed, 12 injured in attack on checkpoint in Egypt's Ismailia: Media

Four people were killed, including two coppers and a civilian, and 12 others were maimed on Friday afternoon in a suspected terrorist attack on a security checkpoint in the Suez Canal city of Ismailia, according to local and foreign media.

No official statement has been released by the Egyptian authorities so far, and there has been no official account on the corpse count or injuries.

One of the two assailants was reportedly killed during the attack, while the 12 injured were taken to a hospital for treatment.

No group has so far grabbed credit for the attack.

In May, an officer and ten soldiers from the Egyptian Army were killed, and five others were maimed in an attack by a takfiri

...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed...
bully boyz against a water lifting station checkpoint east of the Suez Canal.

Al Ahram means the group that has called itself ’Wilayat Sina’ (’Sinai Province’) — an affiliate of Islamic State in North Sinai — which repeatedly grabbed credit for terrorist attacks in North Sinai in recent years. There used to be a Gaza branch that called itself the Sheikh Omar Hadid Brigade, but they appeared in the news only briefly. Back when the Sinai Province swore loyalty to Al Qaeda, they called themselves Ansar Bayt al Maqdis/Al Qaeda in the Sinai.

Terrorist attacks in Egypt — which spiked in the wake of the 2013 ouster of the Moslem Brüderbund President Mohammed Morsi, most notably in North Sinai — have declined in recent years following massive and successive security and military operations.

The attacks targeted security forces, particularly at military and police checkpoints, as well as civilians, causing hundreds of casualties.

Hundreds of bad boyz were potted in anti-terror military operations, according to Armed Forces periodical reports.

In 2018, the Armed Forces launched a major counterterrorism drive, Comprehensive Operation Sinai 2018, that has succeeded in the near eradication of terrorism from North Sinai as well as the Nile Delta and desert areas.

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