Sisi and the farce of counter-terrorism in Egypt

In one week, at least 16 Egyptian troops were killed in attacks attributed to and claimed by the Islamic State. Wilayah Sina, or the ‘Sinai Province’, as is the name that IS gives itself in the Sinai Peninsula, claimed responsibility for an attack on Saturday at a checkpoint just west of Rafah on the border with Palestine. The Saturday before that, the group carried out one of its deadliest attacks in years on Egyptian military personnel when it killed 11 troops in El Qantara, which straddles the border between the governates of Ismailia and North Sinai. The bitter irony in all this is that si…

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