Death Toll in Sinai Attack Rises to 12 Egyptian Soldiers: Sources

The death toll from an attack on an Egyptian military checkpoint on Thursday in the restive northern Sinai Peninsula has climbed to 12, medical sources said on Friday. The military said late on Thursday that militants had killed eight soldiers and that it had killed three attackers. There was no claim of responsibility for the attack. An Islamist insurgency in the rugged, thinly populated Sinai has gained pace since the military toppled the country’s first freely elected civilian...

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