Egypt, Libya at odds over border control

The last segment of the video showed Ansar Jerusalem fighters operating a checkpoint on the Rafah-el-Arish international road in order “to arrest the spies and the agents, the traitors.”

For 3 Egyptian Islamists, violence is only way to respond to police crackdown

Meanwhile, four suspected al Qaeda members were referred to trial yesterday over their involvement in plots to carry out attacks in Egypt, including against the US and French embassies.

If al Taliawi is a member of Ansar Jerusalem and did indeed fight in Syria, he would be the third member of the group to have done so.

Since February 2011, Sinai gas pipelines have been struck at least 20 times, according to a tally maintained by The Long War Journal. Ansar Jerusalem has claimed responsibility for nearly all of these attacks.

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Egyptian officials believe that “senior members” of Ansar Jerusalem were killed in recent airstrikes in North Sinai. Independent confirmation of the results of Egyptian military operations in North Sinai is almost impossible to come by.

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Egypt border police on alert after tour bus bombing

“This comes within our assault in the economic war on this traitorous agent regime,” Ansar Jerusalem said in its latest statement. The attack in Taba is at least the fourth since September 2013 in which Ansar Jerusalem has used a suicide bomber.

Suspected Egyptian militants raise stakes in insurgency

The attack, which had previously gone unclaimed, wounded at least four Egyptian security personnel. Five days before this attack, a bombing by Ansar Jerusalem in Mansoura killed more than a dozen.

A close look at Ansar Jerusalem’s attempted assassination of Egypt’s interior minister on Sept. 5, 2013 reveals multiple connections to al Qaeda’s international network.
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The Strategy of Egypt’s Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis

‘Volunteer jihadists’ pose security dilemma in Egypt

In October 2012, Israeli intelligence noted that cooperation between Ansar Jerusalem and members of the Popular Resistance Committees was occurring.

The army spokesman did not identify the 16 suspect militants, but some reports have suggested that members of Ansar Jerusalem were targeted. In Cairo, authorities continued to search for the perpetrators of yesterday’s bombing.

Violence risks turning Egypt to jihadi front

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Shadowy jihadist group poses grave threat to Egypt

This was the second such attack claimed by the group in the past two weeks. An Iron Dome missile defense battery intercepted the latest rocket and is likely to remain in the area over the coming weeks.

Al-Qaeda now frontline threat to Israel

Egypt faces new threat in al Qaeda-linked group Ansar Bayt al Maqdis

Airstrikes in North Sinai appear to have increased in recent days after Ansar Jerusalem released video of its fighters downing an Egyptian military helicopter with a MANPADS.

Petraeus: Terrorists With Missiles Could Down Global Air Traffic
