http://archive.smallwarsjournal.com/ en http://archive.smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/making-headway-against-sinai-insurgency <span>Making Headway Against the Sinai Insurgency</span> <span><span>SWJED</span></span> <span>Sat, 08/10/2019 - 1:27pm</span> <div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field--item">Countering this insurgency has been at the forefront of Egyptian president Abdelfattah al-Sisi’s agenda since he assumed office in 2013. Roughly 1,000 security personnel have been killed in the region during this period. However, despite brutal methods and substantial military effort, the Egyptian government has little to show from the past five-plus years of counterinsurgency operations in the Sinai aside from hundreds of military and civilian casualties and an undeterred adversary.</div> <ul class="links inline list-inline"><li class="node-readmore"><a href="/jrnl/art/making-headway-against-sinai-insurgency" rel="tag" title="Making Headway Against the Sinai Insurgency" hreflang="en">Read more<span class="visually-hidden"> about Making Headway Against the Sinai Insurgency</span></a></li><li class="comment-comments"><a href="/jrnl/art/making-headway-against-sinai-insurgency#comments" title="Jump to the first comment." hreflang="en">1 comment</a></li><li class="comment-new-comments"><a href="/taxonomy/term/1004/feed" class="hidden" title="Jump to the first new comment." data-history-node-last-comment-timestamp="1632571898" data-history-node-field-name="comment"></a></li><li class="comment-forbidden"></li><li></li></ul> Sat, 10 Aug 2019 17:27:40 +0000 SWJED 123780 at http://archive.smallwarsjournal.com http://archive.smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/the-egyptian-sinai-a-new-front-for-jihadist-activity <article data-history-node-id="13926" role="article" class="article teaser clearfix"> <h2> <a href="/jrnl/art/the-egyptian-sinai-a-new-front-for-jihadist-activity" rel="bookmark"><span>The Egyptian Sinai: A New Front for Jihadist Activity</span> </a> </h2> <footer> <article> <drupal-render-placeholder callback="masquerade.callbacks:renderCacheLink" arguments="0=4602" token="li9VR0E5-FF9KrR1LgslkT0pfqnKTGJRP821iSGfWSM"></drupal-render-placeholder></article> <div class="author"> <span>Tue, 03/26/2013 - 3:30am</span> </div> </footer> <div class="content"> <div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field--item"><p> <span style="line-height: 18px; ">The Egyptian Sinai is becoming a breakaway state.</span></p> </div> <ul class="links inline list-inline"><li class="node-readmore"><a href="/jrnl/art/the-egyptian-sinai-a-new-front-for-jihadist-activity" rel="tag" title="The Egyptian Sinai: A New Front for Jihadist Activity" hreflang="en">Read more<span class="visually-hidden"> about The Egyptian Sinai: A New Front for Jihadist Activity</span></a></li><li class="comment-forbidden"></li><li></li></ul> <h2>About the Author(s)</h2> <div class="views-element-container form-group"></div> </div> </article> Tue, 26 Mar 2013 07:30:00 +0000 Peter J. Munson 13926 at http://archive.smallwarsjournal.com