ISMAILIA: As many as 23 terrorist were killed in Egyptian air strikes in Sinai Peninsula, officials said on Thursday.
According to officials, those killed had taken part in fighting in which 100 militants and 17 soldiers, including four officers, were killed.
Sinai-based insurgents, affiliates of Islamic State, have stepped up attacks on soldiers and police since then-army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi toppled Islamist President Mohamed Mursi in 2013 after mass protests against his rule.
Sisi, now Egypt’s elected president, says the pro-Islamic State group Sinai Province, and other militant factions, pose an existential threat to Egypt, other Arab states and the West.
