| From Thursday. |
Eight soldiers were killed in an attack targeting the Tufaha security checkpoint near the North Sinai town of Bir al-Abd, 80km west of Arish, on Friday. The incident occurred three months after the last attack in Arish vicinity. Eyewitnesses at the scene contacted by al-Ahram Weekly reported that the bully boyz kidnapped civilians and slaughtered them Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
(IS) style, a clear attempt to spread fear and show the organization is still active despite the success of counter-terrorist operations in Sinai.