| 2014 Farafra ambush | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Part of the Post-coup unrest in Egypt | |||||
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| Belligerents | |||||
| Ansar Bait al-Maqdis |
 Egyptian Army | ||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||
| Hesham Ashmawy[1] | Mohamed Darwish | ||||
| Strength | |||||
| 20 gunmen | Unknown | ||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||
| 8 killed | 22 killed | ||||
  Location within Egypt | |||||
The 2014 Farafra ambush (also called 2014 Al-Wadi Al-Gedid attack) occurred on 19 July 2014 when unidentified gunmen ambushed a desert checkpoint in the Farafra Oasis Road in Egypt's New Valley Governorate. Twenty-two border guards were killed in the attack,[2] which was one of the biggest since the July 2013 ouster of Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi and the second at the same checkpoint in less than three months.[3][4][5]
- ^ "Hisham al-Ashmawy: military man turned jihadist". Al Arabiya. 2 October 2015. Archived from the original on 31 May 2019. Retrieved 9 October 2018.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
EgyptIndependentwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "21 Egyptian soldiers killed in rocket attack in Al-Wadi Al-Gedid". Al-Ahram. 19 July 2014. Archived from the original on 26 July 2014. Retrieved 19 July 2014.
- ^ Deshmukh, Jay (19 July 2014). "Gunmen kill 21 Egyptian soldiers in checkpoint attack". Agence France-Presse. Yahoo News. Archived from the original on 19 July 2014. Retrieved 19 July 2014.
- ^ "Egyptian troops killed at checkpoint". BBC News. 19 July 2014. Archived from the original on 20 July 2014. Retrieved 20 July 2014.
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