{"id":31577,"date":"2019-02-02T23:23:23","date_gmt":"2019-02-02T23:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=31577"},"modified":"2019-02-02T23:23:23","modified_gmt":"2019-02-02T23:23:23","slug":"egypt-army-says-kills-8-militants-in-desert-air-strikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=31577","title":{"rendered":"Egypt army says kills 8 militants in desert air strikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1445981\/middle-east\" readability=\"50\">\n<p>\nCAIRO: Egypt&#8217;s military said Saturday it had killed eight militants in air strikes in the Western Desert, as it leads a major campaign against Daesh.<br \/>&#8220;The air force targeted the terrorist base&#8230; the completed operation has killed eight very dangerous terrorists&#8221;, the military said in a statement.<br \/>The military said &#8220;other people&#8221; had been arrested during the operation, but did not give details.<br \/>&#8220;The terrorist cell &#8230;. planned hostile actions that aimed to destabilise the country&#8217;s security and stability&#8221;, the army said, without elaborating.<br \/>Egypt launched an operation dubbed &#8220;Sinai 2018&#8221; a year ago, in a bid to dislodge Daesh from the northeastern Sinai Peninsula and other parts of the country, including the Western Desert bordering Libya.<br \/>The security forces regularly announce that alleged extremists have been killed, but rarely identify the deceased, the groups they support, or the operations they were purportedly planning.<br \/>It is impossible to verify information on military operations through independent sources.<br \/>Groups including Human Rights Watch have denounced extra judicial killings, particularly in the Sinai peninsula.<\/p>\n<p>\nOperation Sinai was launched on February 9 last year and was supposed to last three months, but is still ongoing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAIRO: Egypt&#8217;s military said Saturday it had killed eight militants in air strikes in the Western Desert, as it leads a major campaign against Daesh.&#8221;The air force targeted the terrorist base&#8230; the completed operation has killed eight very dangerous terrorists&#8221;, the military said in a statement.The military said &#8220;other people&#8221; had been arrested during the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":31578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31577","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\/31577","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=31577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}