nytimes.com - Militants in North Sinai simultaneously attacked two army checkpoints before dawn on Thursday, killing at least 11 Egyptian soldiers and wounding at least 19 others, security officials said. The attacks ended a lull in such violence that had lasted several weeks.
Both assaults involved the use of car bombs followed by gunfights with the militants, and the security officials said at least 15 of the attackers had been killed.
The Egyptian Army and security forces have been fighting for more than 20 months to stamp out an incipient Islamist insurgency based in North Sinai, set off by the military ouster of President Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood.
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