Egyptian armed forces and police killed 10 militants and captured 20 others in “Desert Strom” operation which started over the past 48 hours in the Sinai Peninsula.

Egyptian armed forces and police killed 10 militants and captured 20 others in “Desert Strom” operation which started over the past 48 hours in the Sinai Peninsula.

"Security operations carried out by the armed forces and police in north Sinai to hunt down armed terrorists... (resulted) in the liquidation of 10 of these armed terrorist elements," the state news agency MENA said, citing a security source.

"The forces also managed to capture 20 of these elements," it added.
Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, which borders Palestinian occupied territories, has been the scene of increasing violence since a coup that overthrew president Mohammad Mursi on July 3.

Militants have conducted almost daily attacks on security forces in the area, where security had already deteriorated since the 2011 uprising that overthrew then-president Hosni Mubarak.