Posted on 07/02/2015 3:54:21 PM PDT by robowombat
ISMAILIA: Egypt launched airstrikes on Islamist militant targets in the Sinai peninsula Thursday, killing 23 fighters a day after the deadliest clashes in the region in years, security sources said.
The sources said those killed had taken part in Wednesday's fighting in which 100 militants and 17 soldiers, including four officers, were killed, according to the army spokesman.
Sinai-based insurgents, affiliates of ISIS, have stepped up attacks on soldiers and police since then-army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi toppled Islamist President Mohammad Morsi in 2013 after mass protests against his rule.
Sisi, now Egypt's elected president, says the pro-ISIS group Sinai Province, and other militant factions, pose an existential threat to Egypt, other Arab states and the West.
This week has been especially troubling for Egypt, a strategic U.S. ally which has a peace treaty with Israel and controls the Suez Canal, a vital global shipping lane.
The militants' assault, a significant escalation in violence in the peninsula between Israel, the Gaza Strip and the Suez Canal, was the second major attack in Egypt this week.
On Monday, a car bomb killed the prosecutor-general in Cairo, the highest-profile official to die since the insurgency began.
YES!!!
We just need more Muslims killing more Muslims. That’s all. Keep up the good work, guys! Go go go!
BASS, guys.
Great. 23 down and millions to go. Civilization thanks the Egyptians.
[and 85-90% of the world's Muslims are Sunni, IOW, Shiites kill twice as many per capita]
...killing 23 fighters a day after the deadliest clashes in the region in years... those killed had taken part in Wednesday's fighting in which 100 militants and 17 soldiers, including four officers, were killed... Sinai-based insurgents, affiliates of ISIS, have stepped up attacks on soldiers and police since then-army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi toppled Islamist President Mohammad Morsi in 2013 after mass protests against his rule.
The militants are now pacifists!
Why you gotta be an a-hole about everything?
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