July 2015 Sinai clashes

At least 10 Egyptian soldiers were killed and several injured when two suicide car bombers hit army checkpoints in northern Sinai on July 7, security sources said.

The two cars exploded as they passed through two checkpoints close to each other on a road outside the border city of Rafah, the sources said. No group claimed responsibility for the attacks.

Unidentified assailants gunned down an Egyptian police general on the street in the Sinai Peninsula stronghold of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) late on Sept.19, the interior ministry said.

Dozens of people were killed July 1 in a wave of unprecedented attacks by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group on Egyptian soldiers in the Sinai Peninsula, in a major challenge to President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.

Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants launched a wide-scale coordinated assault on several military checkpoints in Egypt's North Sinai on July 1 in which 50 people were killed, security sources said, the largest attack yet in the insurgency-hit province. 

Jihadists in Egypt's Sinai killed 15 soldiers and two civilians in attacks on checkpoints on April 2, security officials said, the deadliest in months despite a massive army campaign against the insurgents.