NINE SUSPECTED MILITANTS KILLED IN EGYPT
CAIRO - 18 September 2019: Nine terrorists
including a commander have been neutralized in shootouts with police in suburbs
of the Egyptian capital, an Interior Ministry statement said Wednesday. Police
raids to the east and south of Cairo targeted hideouts of “terrorist elements,”
it said in a statement.
Those killed included “a commander of the
Liwa Al-Thawra” extremist group, it added. The Liwa Al-Thawra movement appeared
in 2016 and has since claimed deadly attacks against the police and the
Egyptian army.
Almost nine years after the 2011 uprising
that toppled president Hosni Mubarak, security remains a chief concern in
Egypt.That ouster was led by then army chief Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, who became
president after 2014 polls and secured re-election last year with an official
97 percent of the vote.
In February 2018, the army launched a
nationwide offensive against extremists, focused mainly on North Sinai, where
the Daesh extremist group has a significant presence. The authorities say some
650 suspected extremists and around 50 soldiers have been killed since.
Source: Egypt Today – 18 September 2019
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