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ISIS in Sinai claims responsibility for IED attack on pro-government vehicle

Despite attacks, ISIS in Sinai in ‘pattern of decline,’ report says, as security forces and local tribes kill 2 commanders south of Rafah.

View of the border area between Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula as it seen from Highway 10 in southern Israel, on Dec. 4, 2018. Photo by Yossi Zeliger/Flash90.
View of the border area between Israel and Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula as it seen from Highway 10 in southern Israel, on Dec. 4, 2018. Photo by Yossi Zeliger/Flash90.

ISIS in the Sinai Peninsula claimed responsibility for an IED attack that targeted a pro-government militia vehicle, south of Rafah, NBC reported on Tuesday. It was not immediately clear if there were casualties in the attack.

In recent days, the Egyptian military and Sinai Bedouin tribes working with it killed two ISIS commanders south of Rafah, the Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center said in a report released on Wednesday.

Meanwhile, a report released by the U.S.-based Hoover Institution think tank concluded that based on available data, ISIS in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula is in a state of sustained decline.

While in 2020 ISIS in Sinai claimed an average of 16 attacks and 40 casualties per month, so far in 2021 it has claimed an average of 9 attacks and 17 casualties, the report stated.

It noted however that according to the United Nations, ISIS’s branch Sinai is “resilient” and is estimated to represent between 500 and 1,200 armed operatives.

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