The Egyptian military said Thursday it killed a senior Islamic State group ‘cleric’ and 18 members in air strikes in the Sinai Peninsula where the extremists are waging an insurgency.
Among the terrorists killed was “one of the prominent leaders of the so-called Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, the head of the religious affairs committee in the group,” the military said, without saying when the strikes occurred.
Source: AFP
