Sharjah24 – AFP: Daesh group on Sunday claimed responsibility for an attack the previous day that killed 11 Egyptian soldiers in the Sinai Peninsula.
"Daesh fighters killed Egyptian soldiers, seized their weapons and burnt down their position in West Sinai," the group said on its Amaq propaganda site.
More than a thousand suspected militants and dozens of security personnel have been killed since the start of operations, according to official figures.
The army on Saturday said 11 soldiers were killed and five others wounded in a firefight on the eastern bank of the Suez Canal abutting the Sinai.
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