ISIL to Sinai Militants: Attack, Behead Egyptian Security Forces

The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) terrorist group urged militants in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula on Monday to press ahead with attacks and beheadings of Egyptian security forces

The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) terrorist group urged militants in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula on Monday to press ahead with attacks and beheadings of Egyptian security forces. ISIL terrorism

“Rig the roads with explosives for them. Attack their bases. Raid their homes. Cut off their heads. Do not let them feel secure,” ISIL spokesman Abu Muhammad al-Adnani said in a statement to Egyptian militants released online.

He praised those militants for carrying out “blessed operations against the guards of the Jews, the soldiers of Sisi, the new Pharaoh of Egypt” - a reference to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.

Sinai-based militant group Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis, which has killed hundreds of Egyptian security forces over the last year, beheaded several people in recent weeks, saying they were spies for Israeli intelligence, reports said.