Egypt’s Armed Forces spokesperson announced on Tuesday night that the Egyptian military had foiled a terrorist attack on a checkpoint in Egypt’s North Sinai, killing 18 terrorists.

Eight civilians were killed and four others were injured, most of whom are Tarabin and Sawarka tribesmen, in three armed attacks by Province of Sinai last week.

The Islamic State (IS) terrorist group is currently working on recruiting new members from rich people, warned the Egyptian monitoring unit of Dar al-Ifta’s Observatory of Takfiri Fatwas and Extremist Views in a statement on Saturday.

The Islamic State extremist group’s local affiliate in Egypt’s Sinai peninsula killed three civilians near the city of Sheikh Zuwayed in the northeast of the peninsula on Saturday morning, accusing them of cooperating with Egyptian security forces.

Egypt’s Interior Ministry on Tuesday announced that Egyptian police forces killed two wanted militants in a shootout in North Sinai’s Gilbana area.

Egypt executed on Saturday Libyan militant Abdel Rahim Al-Mismari, who was convicted for an attack south of Cairo in October 2017 that killed 16 policemen, the defence ministry said.

The Cairo Criminal Court yesterday sentenced 13 defendants to life imprisonment, and three others to 15-year terms on charges of joining Al-Nusra Front and participating in its operations.

With the assistance of a large number of local tribal members fighting alongside the Egyptian army, Egyptian authorities have expanded their coordination with the tribes when confronting armed organizations in the Sinai Peninsula.

An elder of the Tarabin tribe — one of North Sinai’s largest tribes — was brutally executed on Saturday by the Province of Sinai, the Islamic State affiliate in the peninsula.

A number of Egyptian soldiers were killed and injured on Wednesday morning in attacks close to the border city of Rafah by a militants from a local Islamic State group affiliate.