Egypt foils possible terrorist plot against Coptic Christians - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

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Apr 15, 2020

A member of Egypt special police forces guards the Coptic Orthodox White Monastery site in Sohag, Egypt April 6, 2019. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany - RC120782D770 — An Egyptian special police forces member guards the Coptic Orthodox White Monastery site in Sohag, Egypt, April 6, 2019. — REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany

Mourners carry the coffin of Alaa Emad, an Egyptian soldier who was killed in an explosion targeting an armoured vehicle near Bir al-Abed in North Sinai, during his funeral in the vilage of Abwan in the Minya province on May 1, 2020. - Egypt's army said Thursday that 10 soldiers, including an officer, were killed or wounded in an explosion that day targeting an armoured vehicle near Bir al-Abed in North Sinai. The Egyptian army killed two suspected jihadists Friday in restive North Sinai, a day after a blas

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TOPSHOT - A picture taken on November 25, 2017, shows the Rawda mosque, roughly 40 kilometres west of the North Sinai capital of El-Arish, after a gun and bombing attack.
Armed attackers killed at least 235 worshippers in a bomb and gun assault on the packed mosque in Egypt's restive North Sinai province, in the country's deadliest attack in recent memory. / AFP PHOTO / STR (Photo credit should read STR/AFP via Getty Images)

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