Operation Sinai (2012)

Operation Sinai
	Part of the Sinai insurgency
	; Map of the Sinai Peninsula
Date	7 August 2012 – present; (11 years, 9 months, 2 weeks and 2 days)
Location	Sinai Peninsula, Egypt
Status	Ongoing
Belligerents
Egypt Egyptian Armed Forces; Central Security Forces; Egyptian National Police;	Islamists: Ansar Bait al-Maqdis (until late 2014); Bedouin tribesmen; Jund al Islam; Popular Resistance Movement; Takfir wal-Hijra; Tawhid al-Jihad; Ansar al-Sharia (from 2012); Mujahideen Shura Council (from 2012); Army of Islam; Abdullah Azzam Brigades; Al-Qaeda in Sinai Peninsula (from late 2011); Al Furqan Brigades; Soldiers of Egypt (from 2013); Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (from 2014) Wilayat Sinai;
Commanders and leaders
	Abdel Fattah el-Sisi ; (2014–present); Adly Mansour ; (2012–16); Mahmoud Tawfik ; (2018–present); Magdy Abdel Ghaffar ; (2015–18); Mohamed Ibrahim Moustafa ; (2013–15); Ahmed Gamal El Din ; (2012-13); Mohamed Ahmed Zaki ; (2018–present); Sedki Sobhi ; (2014–18);
Casualties and losses
21 killed, 36 wounded	32 killed, 38 arrested
	2 civilians killed, 6 wounded.; Total: 55 killed

Operation Sinai is an ongoing Egyptian military campaign, launched in early August 2012, against Islamic militants within the Sinai Peninsula to crush the Sinai Insurgency. The operation came as a direct response to the 2012 Egyptian-Israeli border attack on 5 August 2012. The operation was initially reported as part of "Operation Nisr" (Operation Eagle), but on 3 September 2012, the Egyptian army issued a statement requesting media sources to use the official name "Operation Sinai."^[17]^[18]

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^ El-Behairy, Nouran (8 September 2012). "Egyptian armed forces announce results of "Operation Sinai". The Daily News Egypt. Retrieved 23 September 2012.
^ "Egypt kills militants, seizes weapons in Sinai offensive". CNN. 8 September 2012. Retrieved 23 September 2012.

[1] "Perpetrators of second Rafah massacre arrested". Daily News Egypt. 1 September 2013. Retrieved 9 November 2013.

[econ-2] "Egypt's Sinai desert: A haven for malcontents". The Economist. 13 July 2013. Retrieved 17 July 2013.

[3] "Jund al Islam claims credit for Sinai suicide car bomb attacks". The Long War Journal. 12 September 2013. Retrieved 9 October 2013.

[4] "(Allied) Popular Resistance Movement". Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy. 9 April 2015.

[ao1nov-5] "Egypt army arrests head of Sinai radical militant group, dozens others". Ahram Online. 1 November 2013. Retrieved 5 November 2013.

[6] "Egypt sentences 14 to death for 2011 Sinai attacks". The Times of Israel. 24 September 2012. Retrieved 12 December 2013.

[lwj60713-7] "Ansar al Sharia Egypt in the Sinai". Long War Journal. 6 July 2013. Archived from the original on 6 October 2014.

[lwjaug6-8] Bill Roggio, Mujahideen Shura Council denies involvement in Sinai assault, Long War Journal (Foundation for Defense of Democracies) 06-08-2012 Archived 15 August 2014 at the Wayback Machine

[9] "Jaysh al-Islam". Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy. 22 July 2014. Retrieved 15 January 2016.

[10] "Deadly attacks in Sinai highlight the region's growing instability". American Enterprise Institute. 23 July 2013. Retrieved 15 January 2016.

[11] "Jihadists attack international peacekeeper base in Egypt's Sinai | FDD's Long War Journal". 15 September 2012.

[12] "Al Furqan Brigades". Terrorism Research & Analysis Consortium. Retrieved 16 January 2016.

[13] "Ajnad Misr". Terrorism Research & Analysis Consortium. Retrieved 16 January 2016.

[14] "'State of Sinai' claim attacks as part of 'IslamiYouth Uprising'". Daily News Egypt. 29 November 2014. Retrieved 8 December 2014.

[15] "Security source: CSF vehicle in Sinai was shot at". Daily News Egypt. 8 October 2012. Retrieved 8 August 2012.

[Protests_erupt-16] Cite error: The named reference Protests erupt was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[DailyNewsEgypt-17] El-Behairy, Nouran (8 September 2012). "Egyptian armed forces announce results of "Operation Sinai". The Daily News Egypt. Retrieved 23 September 2012.

[CNN_militants-18] "Egypt kills militants, seizes weapons in Sinai offensive". CNN. 8 September 2012. Retrieved 23 September 2012.

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