Small bombs target two homes of Egyptian policemen in North Sinai, no injuries

Egyptian border guards patrol near the border with Israel in North Sinai city of Rafah, Egypt

Minor bombs hit the homes of two policemen in North Sinai on Wednesday morning, As reported.

No casualties were reported.

The blasts hit the homes of two low-ranking policemen in the Al-Masaeed district of Al-Arish.

Witnesses said the homes suffered minor damage.

Several houses of policemen have been similarly attacked in the past two months in North Sinai amid an Islamist armed insurgency against the state.

On 22 June, three policemen and five civilians were injured when two bombs struck adjacent houses inhabited by police personnel in the Karm Abo Negila area of Arish.

Earlier on 13 June, assailants targeted another policeman’s house in North Sinai with an RPG that reportedly missed the target and blasted the walls of a nearby house, injuring a family of six.

In the past two weeks the Egyptian army has carried out intense strikes against insurgent strongholds, which have reportedly left more than 200 militant fighters dead, after Islamic State militants launched multiple simultaneous attacks against security forces earlier in July, leaving at least 21 soldiers dead according to military reports.

Militants have killed hundreds of police and army personnel in the past two years in North Sinai, while the authorities have announced that they also killed hundreds of Islamist militants in military campaigns in the governorate.

An Islamic State affiliate, Sinai Province – previously known as Ansar Beit Al-Maqdis – has claimed responsibility for a number of attacks against security forces in Sinai.

Third military cadet dies after last week's Kafr El-Sheikh attack

Bomb attack on military cadets at a football stadium in Kafr El-Sheikh has now claimed three lives

Student Ismail Mahmoud,third dead victim of bomb attack that hit military academy students in Kafr El Sheikh, Egypt, on 15 April 2015.

A third military cadet was announced dead on Saturday evening following an attack last week in the Nile Delta city of Kafr El-Sheikh, As reported.

The bomb attack had killed two military academy students last Wednesday and injured six other civilians. The explosion went off as they waited at a soccer stadium for a school bus to transport them to Cairo.

Ismail Mahmoud, a third-year student at the academy, succumbed to his injuries in the Military Hospital in Maadi, Cairo.

The death of the young men sparked anger in their hometowns with hundreds protesting last Wednesday in Kafr El-Sheikh demanding the government seek “retribution for all the martyrs.”

Meanwhile, police are carrying out an investigation into the incident.

Attacks on police and army personnel and sites have been frequent nationwide since the ouster of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi in summer 2013.

Dozens of small bombs have been planted, allegedly by Islamist militants, targeting security locations and guards at civilian institutions. They have also hit economic and industrial installations such as electricity pylons and mobile phone stores.

The army had been battling a militant Islamist insurgency in Sinai for a decade, but attacks have intensified in the restive peninsula over the past eighteen months, killing hundreds of security personnel.

The government has launched an “anti-terrorism” campaign, arresting hundreds and announcing the death of hundreds of suspected militants. It has also designated certain groups as “terrorist,” including Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood. 

Bomb wounds four policemen in #Egypt's #Sinai

The explosive was planted at the entrance of an apartment building in the provincial capital of Al-Arish



Four Egyptian policemen were wounded on Monday by a bomb in the volatile Sinai Peninsula, security sources said.

The explosive was planted at the entrance of an apartment building in the provincial capital of Al-Arish, said the sources.

Security forces face a jihadist insurgency that has killed hundreds of soldiers and policemen since the ouster islamist Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood terrorist group in 2013 after mass protests against his rule.

Most attacks have been in the Sinai, which borders Israel and the Gaza Strip.

Security officials say Sinai-based militants are inspired by Islamic State, the al Qaeda offshoot that controls parts of Iraq and Syria and wants to redraw the map of the Middle East.