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Egypt: Army killed 20 Ansar Bayt al Maqdis operatives in Sinai
2017-01-27
[Ynet] Sky News network in Arabic reported that the Egyptian military killed 20 operatives of a branch of 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
 (ISIS) in northern Sinai.

This is part of an extensive military operation against the branch at the center of its activity, in the area of El Arish, which is in the north of the peninsula.
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