{"id":49008,"date":"2019-11-05T15:07:11","date_gmt":"2019-11-05T07:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=49008"},"modified":"2019-11-05T15:13:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-05T07:13:00","slug":"83-militants-killed-in-egypts-sinai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=49008","title":{"rendered":"83 Militants Killed In Egypt&#8217;s Sinai"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>CAIRO, Nov 5 (NNN-MENA) &#8211; At least 83 militants were killed in security raids, on their strongholds in North and Central Sinai, in the past few days, the army said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The raids, launched from Oct 28 till today, have killed 83 militants, including six highly dangerous terrorist elements,&#8221; the army said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An officer and two soldiers were also killed, in the exchange of fire, it added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some 61 criminal and wanted elements were arrested. It added, 376 explosive devices, planted to target army and police forces, were dismantled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The country has been suffering waves of terrorist attacks that killed hundreds of policemen and soldiers, following the military removal of former Islamist President, Mohamed Morsi, in July, 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The terror attacks had been centred in restive North Sinai, before spreading to several provinces, including the capital Cairo, and starting to target Coptic minority via church bombings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most of the attacks were claimed by the so-called Wilayat Sinai (Sinai State), a Sinai-based group, affiliated with the Daesh.&#8211; NNN-MENA  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAIRO, Nov 5 (NNN-MENA) &#8211; At least 83 militants were killed in security raids, on their strongholds in North and Central Sinai, in the past few days, the army said. &#8220;The raids, launched from Oct 28 till today, have killed 83 militants, including six highly dangerous terrorist elements,&#8221; the army said. An officer and two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":49012,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[286,217,194],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49008"}],"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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/49012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}