Egypt says 18 "high-risk" terrorists killed

Eighteen "high-risk" terrorists were killed during joint military and security operations in the northern city of Arish, the Egyptian army announced Thursday.

The Egyptian military spokesman in the statement No. 29 of the armed forces on the military operation in Sinai, "the fall of an officer of the forces involved in the implementation of the raids."

The air force also destroyed a "terrorist barracks" in the southern desert desert of El Arish, killing a number of terrorists.

The operations also resulted in the arrest of 129 suspected and wanted criminals for legal action.
The statement said that "IEDs were found to target the forces on the axes of the movement and neutralized, in addition to the seizure of a quantity of materials used in the manufacture of IEDs and the departments of destruction and destruction and quantities of TNT explosive in the north and central Sinai."

The statement pointed out that "the operations also resulted in the destruction of 147 villages and a warehouse and a trench in the areas of operations in the north and central Sinai, found inside the amount of weapons and ammunition, spare parts and rations, books and tapes calling for Takfiri thought,
For months, the Egyptian forces have been waging a campaign against armed groups in the Sinai Peninsula, east of the country, the most dangerous of which is the "Ansar al-Maqdis" organization, which has declared its allegiance to "Da'ash".

The extremist organization has launched dozens of attacks on Egyptian army, police and civilian forces in recent years, especially after the isolation of the former president Mohammed Morsi belonging to the Brotherhood.