Brutal Islamic State Kills More Than 100 in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula
The Middle East’s dangerous terror group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant stormed Egyptian troops in the Sinai Peninsula and their attack shot dead about 100 people, authorities said.
Islamic State of Iraq and Syria’s jihadists targeted a police station, located in northern town of Sheikh Zuweid and five army checkpoints, military officials reported
Security officials mentioned in report.
The intense conflict has been going on between both military and the fighters, about 100 militants and over 16 soldiers have killed until know, but the number of official killings may rise in next hours as clash is still continued that started since the early morning.
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant organization’s Egyptian associate in Sinai Province, has accepted the responsibility for attacks which almost shot dead over 16 security sites as well by carrying out suicide bombings targeted others.
The bombing is considered severest in their scope since militants started an uprising in 2013 after the military’s conquer of former Islamist president Mohammed Morsi, removed by army chief General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.
Medical department has reported that ambulances couldn’t reach to the victim locations just because of intense battling, in which military using its Apache helicopters to kick out faster militants from the region.
President Morsi feared to have conducting the Muslim Brotherhood and jihadists just working for the organization and still fighting with country’s military.
The militant organization Brotherhood considers a huge threat to national security and severe clash between jihadists and military, making worse country condition and killing people.
The Islamic State’s fighters have been launching attacks continuously in the towns of Sheikh Zuweid and Rafah as carried out car bombing and shelling as open gunfire.
It said to be that Islamic State’s fighters are appealing to their followers to launch more assaults in ongoing Islamic holy month Ramadan that began in June.