{"id":27653,"date":"2019-06-07T09:28:43","date_gmt":"2019-06-07T01:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=27653"},"modified":"2019-06-07T09:28:45","modified_gmt":"2019-06-07T01:28:45","slug":"egypt-police-kill-14-militants-after-checkpoint-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=27653","title":{"rendered":"Egypt police kill 14 militants after checkpoint attack"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"864\" height=\"486\" src=\"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/egypt.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27654\" srcset=\"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/egypt.jpg 864w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/egypt-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/egypt-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/egypt-600x338.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px\" \/><figcaption> <br>Egyptian police. Photo courtesy of Anadolu <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>CAIRO, June 7 (NNN-ANADOLU) &#8211; Egyptian police killed 14 suspected militants involved in a checkpoint attack that left eight policemen dead in North Sinai province, the country\u2019s Interior Ministry said early Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Wednesday, at least eight police officers were killed when militants targeted a checkpoint south of Arish. Five of the militants were killed in exchange of fire while the rest of them fled the scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The militants were later located at an abandoned home&#8230; in Arish [city],&#8221; the ministry said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Security forces rounded the house and killed 14 militants in Thursday&#8217;s shootout.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Daesh terrorist group has claimed responsibility for Wednesday&#8217;s attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Sinai Peninsula has remained the epicenter of a militant insurgency since 2013, when the army ousted Mohamed Morsi &#8212; Egypt&#8217;s first freely elected president and a Muslim Brotherhood leader &#8212; in a military coup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NNN-Anadolu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAIRO, June 7 (NNN-ANADOLU) &#8211; Egyptian police killed 14 suspected militants involved in a checkpoint attack that left eight policemen dead in North Sinai province, the country\u2019s Interior Ministry said early Thursday. On Wednesday, at least eight police officers were killed when militants targeted a checkpoint south of Arish. Five of the militants were killed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":27654,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[217],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27653"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}