{"id":17247,"date":"2018-10-03T19:26:44","date_gmt":"2018-10-03T19:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=17247"},"modified":"2018-10-03T19:26:44","modified_gmt":"2018-10-03T19:26:44","slug":"egypt-security-forces-kill-15-militants-in-sinai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=17247","title":{"rendered":"Egypt: Security forces kill 15 militants in Sinai"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1381971\/middle-east\" readability=\"46\">\n<p>\nCAIRO: Egypt said Wednesday that police have killed 15 suspected militants in a shootout in the northern Sinai Peninsula, where they are battling a Daesh-led insurgency.<br \/>The Interior Ministry says the militants were killed during a raid on their hideout in the city of El-Arish, where they were planning attacks on security forces in the coming days. It says security forces dismantled two explosive devices and seized weapons.<br \/>The statement did not say when the raid took place or whether any security forces were killed or wounded.<br \/>It wasn\u2019t possible to independently confirm the report as access to the northern Sinai is heavily restricted.<br \/>Earlier this week, the Daesh group said one of its leaders in Sinai has been killed. The group\u2019s Aamaq news agency announced the death of Abu Hamza Al-Maqdisi late Monday, calling him a \u201cmartyr\u201d without saying where or how he died.<br \/>A photo of a young, smiling, bearded man accompanied the report. Daesh says he was killed recently, without specifying the day.<br \/>Egypt has been battling militants for years, but the Sinai-based insurgency gained strength after the 2013 military overthrow of the country\u2019s first elected president, the Mohamed Morsi, whose brief rule was divisive.<br \/>In February, Egypt launched a nationwide operation against militants.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAIRO: Egypt said Wednesday that police have killed 15 suspected militants in a shootout in the northern Sinai Peninsula, where they are battling a Daesh-led insurgency.The Interior Ministry says the militants were killed during a raid on their hideout in the city of El-Arish, where they were planning attacks on security forces in the coming&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":17248,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}