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Mosby

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Sat Feb 16, 2019, 03:37 PM Feb 2019

Egypt: 7 Sinai jihadists killed, 15 soldiers dead or wounded in attack

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.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/egypt-7-sinai-jihadists-killed-15-soldiers-dead-or-wounded-in-attack/

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