►Car bomb kills 10 Egyptian soldiers in Sinai On 20 November ten Egyptian soldiers were killed by a car bomb in the Sinai Peninsula, one of the deadliest attacks there since al Qaeda-inspired militants stepped up violence following the overthrow of Islamist President Mohamed Mursi. State television reported a suicide bomber carried out the assault near the coastal town of El-Arish, on the road to the border with the Palestinian-controlled Gaza Strip. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the blast. But Islamist militants have kept up attacks in the desert peninsula in the face of a major military operation launched this summer to reassert state control. The army pledged to continue its war on black terrorism. The security situation in Sinai makes it difficult to verify reports of attacks independently.
Posted on: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 20:41:34 +0000
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