October 2014 Sinai attacks
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title:
October 2014 Sinai attacks
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On 24 October 2014, militant group Ansar Beit al-Maqdis ISIL launched two attacks on Egyptian Armed Forces positions in the Sinai Peninsula, killing at least 33 security personnel in one of the deadliest assaults on the Egyptian military in decades. The first attack in Sheikh Zuweid killed at least 30 soldiers, while the second one killed three soldiers. The incidents prompted Egypt's president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi to call for a security meeting, during which a three-months state of emergency an
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2014 terrorist incident in Sinai Peninsula, Egypt
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_2014_Sinai_attacks
date created:
2014-10-25T09:32:49Z
date modified:
2024-09-04T07:24:19Z
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