Driven from Iraq and Syria, Islamic State Turns Up the Heat in the Sinai
Attacks on both Israel and Egypt in one day.
October 19, 2017
Driven from Iraq and Syria, Islamic State Turns Up the Heat in the Sinai
Attacks on both Israel and Egypt in one day.
With the recent fall of the Syrian city of Raqqa, Islamic State’s de-facto capital, and the organization’s collapse in Iraq this summer, it has now been deprived of its territorial base. But Islamic State (IS) is far from extinguished elsewhere. Its Sinai branch demonstrated this on Sunday by firing rockets into populated areas of southern Israel and attacking Egyptian military positions on the peninsula. Ron Ben-Yishai comments:
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