Terrorism 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.
Date 6 October 1981 – present Location Egypt Status Ongoing
Belligerents
Egypt Armed Forces Central Security Forces Egyptian Ministry of the Interior National Security Service National Police Sinai Tribal Union[1][2]	Islamists: Ansar Bait al-Maqdis[3] (until late 2014) Al-Qaeda Tawhid al-Jihad[4] Al-Qaeda in Sinai Peninsula[5] (from late 2011) Al-Mourabitoun[6] Abdullah Azzam Brigades[7] Ansar al-Sharia[8] Muslim Brotherhood of Egypt Hasm Movement[9] Bedouin tribesmen[10] Jund al-Islam[11] Popular Resistance Movement[12] Takfir wal-Hijra[13] Army of Islam[14] Al Furqan Brigades[15] Soldiers of Egypt[16] Islamic State[17] (from 2014) Wilayat Sinai Mujahideen Shura Council[18]
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 Former Anwar Sadat † Sufi Abu Taleb Hosni Mubarak (POW) Adly Mansour Ahmad Fuad Mohieddin Kamal Hassan Ali Aly Lotfy Mahmoud Atef Sedky Kamal Ganzouri Atef Ebeid Ahmed Nazif Ahmed Shafik Essam Sharaf Hazem El Beblawi Ibrahim Mahlab Sherif Ismail Nabawi Ismail Hassan Abu Basha Ahmed Rushdi Zaki Badr Abdul Halim Moussa Habib el-Adly Mahmoud Wagdy Mansour el-Essawy Mohamed Youssef Ibrahim Ahmed Gamal El Din Mohamed Ibrahim Moustafa Magdy Abdel Ghaffar Ashraf Refaat Mohamed Ali Mohamed Ali Tawfik Gad Sherif Alsadek Ahmed Fadel Ahmed Saber Selim Tamer Abdel Alim Mohab Mamish Osama El-Gendi Osama Mounir Rabie Ahmed Khaled Hassan Saeed Mohammed Shabana Mohamed Abd El Hamid Helmy Mohamed Alaa El Din Barakat Ahmed Abdel Rahman Nasser Magdy Galal Sharawi Reda Mahmoud Hafez Mohamed Younes Hamed Mohamed Abbas Helmy El-Said Hamdy Adel Khalil Mostafa El-Shazly Zaher Abd El-Rahman Ahmed Abou Talib Mohammed Elshahat Sami Hafez Anan Abd El Aziz Seif-Eldeen Abdul Meniem Al-Toras Aly Fahmy Mohammed Aly Fahmi	Abu Hafs al-Hashimi al-Qurashi Abu Hajar al-Hashemi Abū al-Muḥtasib al-Maqdisī Mohammed Badie Former Umar al-Tilmisani (POW) Muhammad Hamid Abu al-Nasr Mustafa Mashhur Ma'mun al-Hudaybi Mohammed Mahdi Akef (POW) Mohamed Morsi (POW) Hesham Qandil (POW) Khairat el-Shater (POW) Waleed Waked (POW)[19] Ibrahim Mohamed Freg †[20] Shadi el-Manaei[21] Mohammed Eid Muslih Hamad (POW) Majid bin Muhammad al-Majid (POW)[22] Saleh Al-Qaraawi (POW)[22] Humam Muhammed †[23] Ezz al-Din al-Masri †[24] Muhammad al-Zawahiri (POW)[25] Abd El-Fattah Salem (POW)[13] Fayez Abu-Sheta †[26] Youssif Abo-Ayat †[27] Saed Abo-Farih †[27] Khalid al-Islambouli  Muhammad abd-al-Salam Faraj  Osama bin Laden † Ayman al-Zawahiri † Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi † Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi † Abu al-Hasan al-Hashimi al-Qurashi † Abu al-Hussein al-Husseini al-Qurashi † Salim Salma Said Mahmoud al-Hamadin † Abu Osama al-Masri †[28] Selim Suleiman Al-Haram †[29][30] Ashraf Ali Hassanein Gharabali †[31] Yunis Hunnar † Hesham Ashmawy [6]
Units involved
Egyptian Army Central Security Forces Egyptian Ministry of the Interior National Security Service National Police
Strength
Total: 25,000 (41 battalions)[32]	Total: ≈12,000[33] ISIL: 1000-1500
Casualties and losses
3,277 killed 12,280 Injured[34] IDF: 1 killed[35]	4,059-5,189+ killed [36][37][38]
Civilian fatalities: 1,539+ Egyptian,[39][40] 219 Russians, 4 Ukrainians, 1 Belarusian,[41] 3 South Koreans,[42] 3 Vietnamese, 2 Germans,[43] 1 Croatian[44] Total: 5,853–7,353+ killed

Part of a series on the Egyptian Crisis (2011–2014)
Main topics 2011 Egyptian revolution Sinai insurgency Military transitional council 2012–2013 Egyptian protests Egyptian Constitution of 2012 June 2013 Egyptian protests 2013 Egyptian coup d'état Post-coup unrest in Egypt Insurgency in Egypt
Elections 2011 Egyptian constitutional referendum 2011–12 Egyptian parliamentary election 2012 Egyptian Shura Council election 2012 Egyptian presidential election 2012 Egyptian constitutional referendum 2014 Egyptian constitutional referendum 2014 Egyptian presidential election 2015 Egyptian parliamentary election
Background History of Egypt under Hosni Mubarak History of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt Corruption in Egypt
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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.^[45]

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.^[46]