Army Egypt claims to kill 16 militants

cairo - In an action against extremists, the Egyptian army killed sixteen militants and arrested more than thirty others. The army said on Sunday that the militants were killed during a campaign in the north of Sinai.

At the end of November, President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi ordered a campaign against extremists in Sinai. A branch of Islamic State (IS) is active in that region. He decided to do the operation after an attack on a mosque on the peninsula. That required at least three hundred lives.

After that terror action Sisi said that Sinai should be 'stabilized' within a few months.