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Thursday, February 22, 2018
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Thursday, February 22, 2018
Egypt says 7 soldiers, 71 jihadists killed in Sinai op
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleSeven Egyptian soldiers and 71 jihadists have been killed since the launch of a wide-ranging operation to quell an Islamic State group affiliate in Sinai earlier this month, Egypt’s military says.
“As a result of the heroic combat operations by our armed forces…seven heroes of the armed forces were martyred,” military spokesman Colonel Tamer Rifai says at a press conference on state television.
“71 extremists have been killed and five arrested,” he says.
Rifai adds that 1,852 other suspects have been rounded up in the operation that began on February 9, following an ultimatum by President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi to end the deadly insurgency.
— AFP
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