Soldiers of Egypt

Soldiers of Egypt
Ajnad Misr
Active	20 November 2013[1]–present
Ideology	Salafist jihadism[2]
Leaders	Magd Eddin al-Masry[3] Humam Muhammed (KIA)[4] Ezz al-Din al-Masri[5]
Area of operations	Cairo, Egypt
Opponents	Egyptian security forces[6]

Soldiers of Egypt (Ajnad Misr in Arabic)^[7] is an active Salafist Islamist militant group that has been operating near Cairo, Egypt.^[8] The groups was founded by Humam Muhammed in 2013, after he split away from the Ansar Bait al-Maqdis militant group.^[4] The group claims that its attacks are "retribution" for the August 2013 Rabaa Massacre; notably, the group targets only security forces.^[2] It has warned civilians of the presence of bombs that it has placed.^[9] The Cairo Court for Urgent Matters declared the group a terrorist group on 22 May 2014.^[10] It has been a Proscribed Organisation in the United Kingdom under the Terrorism Act 2000 since November 2014.^[11] The United States Department of State designated it a terrorist organization on 18 December 2014.^[12]

Attacks

• The group claimed responsibility for an attack^[13] that occurred on 24 January 2014 that ultimately killed two policeman,^[14][15] Ansar Bait al-Maqdis indicated that Soldiers of Egypt had executed one of the bombings, despite the fact that Ansar Bait al-Maqdis initially claimed responsibility for all of the bombings.^[16]
• The group claimed responsibility for two bombings that occurred on 7 February 2014.^[7]
• The group claimed to have killed one policemen and injured eight people in a 13 February 2015 bombing near a police station in Ain Shams.^[17]
• The group exploded a bomb in 6th of October City on 5 March 2014.^[18][19]
• The group targeted a police car parked near the Israeli embassy in Cairo on 11 March 2014.^[18][20]
• The group placed a bomb in Nasr City on 29 March 2014.^[18][21]
• One police general was killed on 2 April 2014.^[22]
• One traffic policeman was wounded by a bomb on 10 April 2014.^[6][23]
• Two policemen and a civilian wounded by a bomb on 15 April 2014.^[6][24]
• One police officer was killed by the group in Mohandessin on 18 April 2014.^[6][25]
• The group killed one member of the Central Security Forces in Cairo on 23 April 2014.^[26]
• The group killed two policemen in Cairo on 30 June 2014.^[9]
• The group killed two policemen in Cairo on 20 September 2014.^[27]
• The group claimed responsibility for a bombing that occurred on 22 October 2014 near Cairo University that injured 11 people.^[28]
• The group claimed responsibility for a bombing that occurred on 20 November 2014 near Helwan University that injured at least five police officers.^[29]
• The group injured four policemen in a bombing that occurred on 5 December 2014 near Ain Shams University.^[30]
• The group killed one policeman and injured three civilians in a January 2015 bombing in the Talbia district of Giza.^[31]
• The group killed one policeman and injured seven policemen and a civilian in a 13 February 2015 bombing in Cairo.^[32]
• The group claimed to have killed four policemen and injured eight people in a 28 March 2015 bombing near Cairo University.^[17]
• The group claimed responsibility for a bombing in Zamalek that occurred on 6 April 2015 that killed one policeman.^[33]

References