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Egypt says 172 Sinai jihadists killed in February
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleEgypt’s army says at least 172 jihadists were killed in February in joint police and military operations in the restive Sinai, where security forces are battling an Islamist insurgency.
The militants were killed in a series of security operations in the peninsula after a deadly January 29 attack by jihadists left 30 people dead, mostly soldiers.
The army adds that the militants were killed in the North Sinai cities of el-Arish and Sheikh Zuweid and in the town of Rafah, which borders Israel and the Palestinian Gaza Strip.
Another 229 suspected jihadists were arrested in these operations, while 85 militant hideouts were destroyed last month, the army claims in a statement accompanied by a picture of a suspected militant shot dead.
— AFP
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