Operation Martyr's Right

Operation Martyr's Right
	Part of the Sinai insurgency
	; Map of the Sinai Peninsula.
Date	7 September 2015 – present; (8 years, 4 months, 1 week and 3 days)
Location	Sinai Peninsula, Egypt
Belligerents
Egypt Egyptian Armed Forces; Egyptian National Police;	Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant Wilayat Sinai;
Commanders and leaders
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi ; (2015–present); Mohamed Ahmed Zaki ; (2018–present); Sedki Sobhi ; (2015–18); Mahmoud Tawfik ; (2018–present); Magdy Abdel Ghaffar ; (2015–18);	Abu Osama al-Masri † (ISIL Emir of Wilayat Sinai); Shadi el-Manaei;
Casualties and losses
Security forces:; 10 soldiers killed; 3 humvees destroyed	1,013 militants killed

Operation Martyr's Right was a military operation conducted by the Egyptian Armed Forces in cooperation with the Egyptian National Police officers, aimed at rooting out and killing jihadist militants.

The operation was officially launched on 7 September 2015. It is considered to be the largest military action in the Sinai Peninsula in months. The operation targets sites in all towns in northern area of the peninsula.

A part of the larger background of an international campaign against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, over two hundred militants tied to the terrorist group have been reported dead.

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