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Sunday, 7 August 2016

Egyptian Armed Forces kills head of Daesh Sinai Province

A combined air and ground operation killed the head of Daesh in Sinai Province Abu Duaa Al Ansari along with at least 45 other jihadists in a “preemptive strike” on Daesh ammunition depots in Sinai, according to an announcement by Armed Forces spokesperson Brig. Gen. Mohammed Abdul Aziz Ghonim on his official Facebook page on Thursday evening. The statement said dozens of other sites were “targeted with precise hits” in the operation against the group’s strongholds in the south and south-west of the Sinai city of El Arish. The group has previously claimed responsibility for the downing of the Metrojet airliner last fall and the assassination of Prosecutor General Hisham Barakat. It is the first time Egypt’s security forces have named the head of Daesh in Sinai, The Guardian reports. The announcement was followed by an explosion in Al Arish on Friday which killed four civilians and injured eight.

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