{"id":24026,"date":"2016-03-20T02:29:14","date_gmt":"2016-03-20T02:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/egyptian-troops-killed-in-sinai-attack\/"},"modified":"2016-03-20T02:29:06","modified_gmt":"2016-03-20T02:29:06","slug":"egyptian-troops-killed-in-sinai-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/egyptian-troops-killed-in-sinai-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Egyptian troops killed in Sinai attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{At least 13 troops dead after mortar attack claimed by ISIL on security checkpoint near city of El Arish.}<\/p>\n<p>At least 13 Egyptian policemen have been killed in the Sinai Peninsula after an armed group fired a mortar at a security checkpoint in the city of Arish, security and medical sources said.<\/p>\n<p>The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claimed responsibility for Saturday&#8217;s attack on several websites, with later confirmation from Egyptian state media.<\/p>\n<p>Ambulances were subjected to heavy gunfire as they attempted to reach the wounded, the security and medical sources said.<\/p>\n<p>Eyewitnesses reported hearing a massive explosion and said the city&#8217;s entrances and exits had been closed off by security forces.<\/p>\n<p>Security sources said government forces were later able to kill five of the fighters who carried out the attack.<\/p>\n<p>Egypt is battling an armed campaign that gained pace after its military overthrew President Mohamed Morsi.<\/p>\n<p>The campaign, mounted by ISIL&#8217;s Egyptian branch Sinai Province, has killed hundreds of soldiers and police and has also targeted Western interests within the country.<\/p>\n<p>ISIL controls large parts of Iraq and Syria and has a presence in Libya, which borders Egypt.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-11046 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/afc1065f6a1d458bbe9dcab65ca52503_18.jpg\" alt=\"Egyptian troops in Sinai are frequently targeted by fighters loyal to ISIL\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{At least 13 troops dead after mortar attack claimed by ISIL on security checkpoint near city of El Arish.} At least 13 Egyptian policemen have been killed in the Sinai Peninsula after an armed group fired a mortar at a security checkpoint in the city of Arish, security and medical sources said. The Islamic State [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[100],"byline":[2474],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-24026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-africa","byline-al-jazeera"],"bylines":[{"id":2474,"name":"AL JAZEERA","slug":"al-jazeera","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":2474,"name":"AL JAZEERA","slug":"al-jazeera","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24026"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=24026"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=24026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}