CAIRO (Sputnik) — Egyptian soldiers have killed 14 members of a terrorist group in northern Sinai and arrested 13 militants over past five days, Egypt’s military spokesman Tamer Refaei said as quoted by local media Monday.

As part of the security operation aimed at uprooting Takfiris terrorists, Egypt’s army also destroyed six stores belonging to terrorists, three car bombs, ten explosive devices and confiscated 530 gallons of fuel, the Egypt Independent newspaper reported citing Refaei.

Egypt has been fighting terrorists located in the north of the Sinai Peninsula for two years. The army continues its efforts in eliminating the militants whose activity has decreased over the past several months. </s> Egypt's army said Saturday seven suspected jihadists were "eliminated" and 15 soldiers killed or wounded in an attack in the Sinai Peninsula, where the military is fighting the Islamic State group.

Security forces responded to the attack on a checkpoint in restive North Sinai in an "exchange of fire", army spokesman Tamer el-Refai said in a statement, without giving a precise number for the soldiers killed.

Egypt launched a nationwide operation against militants in February 2018, mainly focused on jihadists in North Sinai province. </s> An Egyptian military spokesman on Sunday said that four alleged militants were killed and 252 suspects were arrested over the past week during military operations in the Sinai Peninsula in northeast Egypt.

Col. Tamer al-Refaei detailed in a statement on his official Facebook page that those killed allegedly included three "very dangerous" radicals, who were killed as part of "Operation Sinai 2018," which began Feb. 9 to clear the restive peninsula of militants. </s> Cairo: The Egyptian army said on Monday that assailants killed five soldiers in the Sinai Peninsula, where security forces have been targeted in a spate of terror attacks.

“The armed forces mourn with great sadness and sorrow the five martyrs who were martyred in Sinai at the hands of disloyal fundamentalist elements, enemies of the nation and religion,” the military said.

The statement did not elaborate on the cause of their deaths.

Terrorists have killed hundreds of soldiers and policemen since the military overthrow of Islamist president Mohammad Mursi in 2013 unleashed a bloody crackdown on his supporters.

The crackdown decimated the Islamist movement and killed hundreds of his followers, and set off an Islamist insurgency that has killed hundreds of security personnel.

Most of the attacks have taken place in the Sinai Peninsula, but attacks have also been carried out in other areas, including Cairo.

And the majority of these attacks have been carried out by Daesh, which views Mursi’s Muslim Brotherhood group as heretics. </s> At least five soldiers have been killed by unknown gunmen in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, according to military officials, in the latest attack to hit the troubled area.

"The armed forces mourn with great sadness and sorrow the five martyrs who were martyred in Sinai at the hands of disloyal fundamentalist elements, enemies of the nation and religion," the military said in a statement on Monday.

The statement did not give any further details about the location or the circumstances surrounding the incident, but online media reports said the attack happened late on Sunday.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the deadly incident.

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An armed movement in the rugged and thinly populated Sinai Peninsula has gained pace since the military toppled President Mohamed Morsi, of the Muslim Brotherhood, in mid-2013.

Since then, hundreds of police officers and soldiers have been killed in attacks.

Earlier in January, a truck-bomb attack on a checkpoint killed at least seven police officers in the city of El-Arish in northern Sinai.

In November, a car-bomb attack on a checkpoint in Sinai killed eight soldiers.

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) group's Egyptian branch in the Sinai Peninsula has also carried out several such attacks over the past two years.

The Sinai Peninsula borders Israel and Palestine's Gaza Strip. </s> Egypt's military said there was a clash at a checkpoint Saturday between suspected jihadists and the military on the Sinai Peninsula. 

 

 A military spokesman told AFP in a statement that seven militants were killed in the attack in the restive North Sinai, while 15 soldiers were either killed or wounded.

Army spokesman Tamer el-Refai said in the statement that "an officer and 14 non-commissioned soldiers were killed or wounded." He did give an exact number for the death toll. 

 

 El-Refai said security forces would go after "the terrorist elements to eliminate them." </s> CAIRO: Egyptian soldiers killed 14 militants and arrested ten others in a raid in central Sinai, the military said on Monday.

The operation over the past five days destroyed three car bombs and 10 other explosive devices and seized weapons, communication devices and military clothing, the army spokesman added.

An Islamist insurgency in the Sinai Peninsula has gained pace since the military toppled President Mohamed Mursi of the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt’s oldest Islamist movement, in 2013 following mass protests against him.

Sinai Province, the militant group behind the insurgency, pledged allegiance to Islamic State in 2014 and has been accused of killing hundreds of soldiers and police since then.

Militant activity in central Sinai is less frequent than in its more restive north, where Islamic State attacks on military and police checkpoints are common.

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Egypt: According to the information given by the military personnel, in an incident that took place in central Sinai killed at least eight Egyptian soldiers and 15 others got injured in a terror attack on a military camp.

While explaining the incident to the media, military spokesperson Tamer al-Refaay went on to say: “A group of 14 militants, four of them wearing explosive belts, attempted to break into one of the armed forces camps in central Sinai before the sunrise.”

In the confrontation, the security forces foiled the attack by killing all the terrorists, media reported.

Earlier in the day, the Egyptian armed forces announced 27 militants were killed and 114 others arrested in the latest raids in Sinai Peninsula as part of the country’s anti-terror military operation “Sinai 2018”.

More than 190 militants and at least 22 soldiers had been killed in the massive operation launched on February 9. Attacks are rarely carried out in central Sinai.

Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula has been the centre of terrorist attacks that have killed hundreds of policemen and soldiers following the military ouster of former Islamist President Mohamed Morsi in July 2013.

Most of the terror attacks were carried out by a Sinai-based group affiliated with the Islamic State (IS) regional terrorist group. </s> CAIRO — Egypt’s army said Saturday seven suspected jihadists were “eliminated” and 15 soldiers killed or wounded in an attack in the Sinai Peninsula, where troops are fighting the Islamic State jihadist group.

Security forces responded to the attack on a checkpoint in restive North Sinai with an “exchange of fire,” army spokesman Tamer el-Refai said in a statement.

“An officer and 14 non-commissioned soldiers were killed or wounded,” he added, without giving a precise number for the dead.

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Medical sources in North Sinai told AFP that 11 soldiers were killed in the attack.

Security forces would continue to pursue “the terrorist elements to eliminate them,” El-Refai added.

Egypt often announces that jihadists have been killed in military operations, but statements that security forces have suffered significant losses are very rare.

Since the army’s overthrow of elected Islamist president Mohamed Morsi in 2013, hundreds of soldiers and police have been killed in attacks by extremist groups.

Civilians have also been targeted in jihadist attacks, particularly members of Egypt’s minority Coptic Christian community.

Egypt’s army launched an offensive a year ago dubbed “Sinai 2018” on the orders of President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi, after a jihadist attack in North Sinai killed more than 300 people at a mosque.

The army says that more than 550 suspected jihadists have been killed in the offensive — which has also targeted militants elsewhere in Egypt — at the cost of more than 30 soldiers.

But no independent statistics are available and the North Sinai is largely cut off to media and foreigners.
The Egyptian Army kills four suspected terrorists in the Sinai Peninsula.