Fog o’war. Slightly different details than the two slightly different reports we had yesterday stacked together here.
[An Nahar] Three Egyptian coppers were killed and four others, including a police officer, maimed in an attack in the Suez Canal city of Ismailia, security and medical sources said.Two cars approached a checkpoint in a residential neighborhood of the city and two armed assailants shot up the coppers, the security source said.
The coppers responded, killing one of the assailants while the other fled.
The source said the attack was likely a "terrorist act", describing it as the first of its kind in nearly three years in mainland Egypt, which has largely been spared the deadly insurgency in the Sinai peninsula.
Medical sources confirmed the casualty toll from the attack, for which there was no immediate claim of responsibility.
In the past few years, attacks against security forces have been concentrated in the restive Sinai, where jihadists affiliated with the 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....
group continue to operate.
Eleven soldiers were killed on May 7 in an attack in western Sinai.
Days later, another five soldiers and seven jihadists died when the army was attacked in the peninsula.
Egypt has been battling the insurgency that intensified after the army ousted Islamist president Mohammed Morsi in 2013.
In February 2018, security forces launched a wide-reaching campaign seeking to root out members of jihadist groups in the Sinai and elsewhere.
More than 1,000 jihadists were reported to have been killed by the military during the campaign, though figures are difficult to verify amid a media blackout in the peninsula.
In May 2019, an attack near Egypt's Giza pyramids injured 17 people, many of them foreign tourists.
And in August of that year, 20 people were killed when a car laden with explosives crashed into two other vehicles in Cairo.
Ismailia is one of the key cities overlooking Egypt's Suez Canal, a vital waterway between Asia and Europa
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
that sees about 10 percent of the world's maritime trade.
The canal is a major source of foreign currency for Egypt, which is struggling with a declining currency and rising inflation