{"id":1704,"date":"2015-04-04T20:08:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-04T20:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/?p=1704"},"modified":"2015-04-04T20:08:00","modified_gmt":"2015-04-04T20:08:00","slug":"egyptian-troops-kill-at-least-100-terrorists-in-north-sinai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/egyptian-troops-kill-at-least-100-terrorists-in-north-sinai\/","title":{"rendered":"Egyptian troops kill at least 100 terrorists in North Sinai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>At least 100 terrorists have been killed in the Egyptian army\u2019s strikes against terrorists\u2019 positions in the restive region of North Sinai over the past 24 hours.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">An Egyptian military source said on Friday that the army launched ground and aerial offensives against the terrorists\u2019 hideouts in the south of Sheikh Zuweid, killing 100 of the militants.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The army\u2019s large-scale operations came a day after militants killed 15 Egyptian troops and two civilians in Sinai.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Reports said gunmen opened fire on troops with automatic rifles at checkpoints in the North Sinai towns of Sheikh Zuweid and Rafah on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ansar Bait al-Maqdis, an al-Qaeda-affiliated militant group, claimed responsibility for the Thursday attacks. The group has recently pledged allegiance to the ISIL Takfiri terrorist group and changed its name to Velayat Sinai (Sinai Province).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The lions of the Sinai Province early on Thursday launched wide scale simultaneous attacks against security checkpoints on the road between Rafah and Arish,&#8221; in North Sinai, read the statement issued by the terrorist group on its twitter account.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Sinai Peninsula has long been considered a safe haven for gunmen who use the region as a base for their acts of terror.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Since the ouster of Mohamed Morsi, Egypt\u2019s former president, in July 2013, gunmen have launched terrorist attacks in Sinai, killing members of Egypt\u2019s security forces.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On January 31, the group killed 30 people and injured dozens in\u00a0a series of coordinated attacks in Sinai.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">FNR\/AS\/MHB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 100 terrorists have been killed in the Egyptian army\u2019s strikes against terrorists\u2019 positions in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1705,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[38,44,1],"tags":[355,78,15,5,113,11],"class_list":["post-1704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa","category-middle-east","category-news","tag-africa","tag-egypt","tag-militants","tag-military","tag-security","tag-terrorism"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Egypt-Soldiers.jpg?fit=690%2C366&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7jJWb-ru","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1707,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704\/revisions\/1707"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}