| January 2015 Sinai Attacks | |||||||
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44 killed |
Unknown in subsequent operations: 47 killed[3] | ||||||
Arish
Sheikh Zuweid
Rafah
Location on the Sinai Peninsula of the three cities attacked in January 2015 by Wilayat Sinai.
On 29 January 2015, militants from the ISIL-affiliated Wilayat Sinai (Sinai Province) militant group launched a series of attacks on army and police bases in Arish using car bombs and mortars.[4] The attacks, which occurred in more than six different locations, resulted in 44 deaths.[1]
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- ^ Zaki, Menna; El-Fekki, Amira; Mostafa, Mahmoud (31 January 2015). "'State of Sinai' claim hundreds of killings in Sinai attacks". Daily News Egypt. Retrieved 1 February 2015.
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