Terrorism in Egypt

Terrorism in Egypt in the 20th and 21st centuries has targeted the Egyptian government officials, Egyptian police and Egyptian army members, tourists, Sufi Mosques and the Christian minority. Many attacks have been linked to Islamic extremism, and terrorism increased in the 1990s when the Islamist movement al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya targeted high-level political leaders and killed hundreds – including civilians – in its pursuit of implementing traditional Sharia law in Egypt.

Islamic Terrorism in Egypt
Part of Terrorism in Egypt, the Egyptian Crisis, the War on terror, and the Arab Winter, and the Sinai insurgency

Platform where Anwar Sadat was assassinated.
Date6 October 1981 – present
Location
Status Ongoing
Belligerents

 Egypt

Islamists:


Islamic State (from 2014)

Commanders and leaders

Abdel Fattah el-Sisi
Mostafa Madbouly
Mahmoud Tawfik
Mohamed Ahmed Zaki
Osama Askar
Ashraf Ibrahim Atwa
Mahmoud Foaad Abd El- Gawad
Mohamed Hegazy Abdul Mawgoud

Abu Hafs al-Hashimi al-Qurashi
Abu Hajar al-Hashemi
Abū al-Muḥtasib al-Maqdisī
Mohammed Badie

Former
Units involved

Egyptian Army

Strength
Total: 25,000 (41 battalions)

Total: ≈12,000


ISIL: 1000-1500
Casualties and losses
3,277 killed
12,280 Injured

IDF: 1 killed
4,059-5,189+ killed
Civilian fatalities: 1,539+ Egyptian, 219 Russians, 4 Ukrainians, 1 Belarusian, 3 South Koreans, 3 Vietnamese, 2 Germans, 1 Croatian
Total: 5,853–7,353+ killed

Ayman al-Zawahiri, an Egyptian doctor and leader of Egyptian Islamic Jihad group, was believed to be behind the operations of al-Qaeda. As of 2015, four of 30 people on the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation "most wanted" terrorist list are Egyptian.

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