Egypt

Four people were killed, including two policemen, and nine others were injured in a bomb attack by suspected jihadists on a train near Cairo. A bomb blast near the presidential palace wounded one person. Israel granted an Egyptian request to deploy two additional infantry battalions and attack helicopters to combat Islamist militants in the demilitarized Sinai. A formerly prominent Egyptian rights activist is reported to have died fighting for the Islamic State in Iraq earlier this year.

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