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by Haitham EL-TABEI Eight Egyptian soldiers were killed in a car bomb attack targeting a checkpoint in Sinai, where the local affiliate of the Islamic State group is leading an insurgency, the army said Thursday. “A group of armed terrorists attacked one of the security checkpoints in north Sinai,” the …

An attack on an Egyptian military checkpoint killed 12 soldiers and wounded six others on Friday in the Sinai Peninsula where security forces are fighting jihadists, the army said. The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the attack. Mortar rounds and rockets were fired at the army post, a police …