Egyptian security forces kill senior ISIL commander in Sinai
Egyptian security forces on Monday traced and targeted one of the hideouts of ISIL terrorists in the Sinai peninsula and killed their commander.
The Egyptian interior ministry announced that the country’s security forces stormed the hideout of the ISIL-affiliated group of Ansar Baytul Maqdas in Sinai and killed one of the key leaders of the ISIL.
No more explanations have been presented by Cairo officials yet.
In September, the Egyptian Army said it had launched a “major military operation” in the Sinai Peninsula against the ISIL Takfiri group, killing 29 terrorists and leaving two soldiers dead.
“Units of the police and army launched Operation Right of the Martyr at dawn to eliminate terrorist elements in Rafah, Sheikh Zuweid and El-Arish in North Sinai,” the army said at the time.
“Twenty-nine miscreants were killed… while an officer and a non-commissioned soldier were killed and four others wounded when their vehicle was blown up by a bomb.”
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