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Sinai attack needs to be a turning point in Egypt's war on terror

13:15, Saturday, 25 November, 2017
Sinai attack needs to be a turning point in Egypt's war on terror

Egypt’s restive northern Sinai province, where at least 235 people were killed and scores more injured in a bomb and gun assault on a mosque on Friday, has been under a state of emergency since October 2014, when Islamist militants killed more than 30 soldiers in one operation.
     More than three years of fighting has failed to crush an insurgency waged by the local Islamic State affiliate, Wilayat al-Sinai (the Governorate of Sinai), which is also blamed for bombing attacks on churches in Cairo and other cities, killing dozens of Christians. It had also carried out the previous deadliest attack in Sinai when it downed a Russian passenger jet carrying tourists back from the resort of Sharm el-Sheikh in 2015, killing 224 people.
     The most obvious suspect for the attack in Bir al-Abed is again Wilayat al-Sinai, though there has been no claim of responsibility.

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