CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian warplanes launched new airstrikes and troops went house-to-house Thursday in the troubled Sinai Peninsula, a day after Islamic State-linked extremists set off the area’s bloodiest fighting in decades in an unprecedented, coordinated attack.
The combat, described as “war” by the media and officials, heightened tensions across Egypt as it marks Friday’s second anniversary of the military’s overthrow of Islamist president Mohammed Morsi, a move that fanned an insurgency in north Sinai that has grown stronger. (READ MORE)
