ISIS Sets Up Checkpoints - in Egypt [View all]

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For most of the last few years, ISIS has been fighting the fiercest battles—and acquiring most of the territory it now controls—in Iraq and Syria. More recently, militants has been trying to expand that base by gaining a foothold in places like Gaza, Yemen and Egypt.

ISIS has been operating loosely in Egypt’s northern Sinai Peninsula, for the past six months, launching attacks here and there. But the group has released video and other documents that suggest it is getting more organized in the Sinai—and also more lethal. For the first time, ISIS is setting up military checkpoints, as shown in this ISIS video, on the main road between the major cities of Al-Arish and Rafah. In the video, militants explain that they chose that location, close to the Gaza Strip and the Israeli border, because it will allow them to “catch spies from the Egyptian army and spies for the Jews.”


http://www.vocativ.com/world/isis-2/isis-egypt-nightmare-comes-true/