Al Jazeera: Egypt launches military operation in Sinai, Nile Delta
Egypt has launched a "comprehensive" security operation against "terrorists and criminal elements" across the country, a military spokesman said.
Colonel Tamer Rifai announced on Friday the implementation of a plan to push out armed groups in the Sinai Peninsula, parts of the Nile Delta and the Western Desert.
"Law enforcement forces began this morning implementing the plan of comprehensive confrontation against the terrorist and criminal elements and organisations in the north and central Sinai and other areas in the Delta of Egypt and the desert back in the west of the Nile Valley," Rifai said in an urgent televised statement.
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