CAIRO (Sputnik) — Egyptian soldiers have killed 14 members of a terrorist group in northern Sinai and arrested 13 militants over past five days, Egypt’s military spokesman Tamer Refaei said as quoted by local media Monday.

As part of the security operation aimed at uprooting Takfiris terrorists, Egypt’s army also destroyed six stores belonging to terrorists, three car bombs, ten explosive devices and confiscated 530 gallons of fuel, the Egypt Independent newspaper reported citing Refaei.

Egypt has been fighting terrorists located in the north of the Sinai Peninsula for two years. The army continues its efforts in eliminating the militants whose activity has decreased over the past several months. </s> Egypt's army said Saturday seven suspected jihadists were "eliminated" and 15 soldiers killed or wounded in an attack in the Sinai Peninsula, where the military is fighting the Islamic State group.

Security forces responded to the attack on a checkpoint in restive North Sinai in an "exchange of fire", army spokesman Tamer el-Refai said in a statement, without giving a precise number for the soldiers killed.

Egypt launched a nationwide operation against militants in February 2018, mainly focused on jihadists in North Sinai province. </s> An Egyptian military spokesman on Sunday said that four alleged militants were killed and 252 suspects were arrested over the past week during military operations in the Sinai Peninsula in northeast Egypt.

Col. Tamer al-Refaei detailed in a statement on his official Facebook page that those killed allegedly included three "very dangerous" radicals, who were killed as part of "Operation Sinai 2018," which began Feb. 9 to clear the restive peninsula of militants. </s> Cairo: The Egyptian army said on Monday that assailants killed five soldiers in the Sinai Peninsula, where security forces have been targeted in a spate of terror attacks.

“The armed forces mourn with great sadness and sorrow the five martyrs who were martyred in Sinai at the hands of disloyal fundamentalist elements, enemies of the nation and religion,” the military said.

The statement did not elaborate on the cause of their deaths.

Terrorists have killed hundreds of soldiers and policemen since the military overthrow of Islamist president Mohammad Mursi in 2013 unleashed a bloody crackdown on his supporters.

The crackdown decimated the Islamist movement and killed hundreds of his followers, and set off an Islamist insurgency that has killed hundreds of security personnel.

Most of the attacks have taken place in the Sinai Peninsula, but attacks have also been carried out in other areas, including Cairo.

And the majority of these attacks have been carried out by Daesh, which views Mursi’s Muslim Brotherhood group as heretics.
The Egyptian Army kills four suspected terrorists in the Sinai Peninsula.