Soldiers of Egypt
Ajnad Misr
LeadersHumam Muhammed †[1]
Ezz al-Din al-Masri[2]
Dates of operation20 November 2013[3]–present
Active regionsEgypt Cairo, Egypt
IdeologySalafist jihadism[4]
OpponentsEgyptian security forces[5]
Battles and warsInsurgency in Egypt

Soldiers of Egypt or Ajnad Misr[6][7] was a Salafist Islamist militant group that has been operating near Cairo, Egypt.[8] The group was founded by Humam Muhammed in 2013, after he split away from the Ansar Bait al-Maqdis militant group.[1] The group claims that its attacks are "retribution" for the August 2013 Rabaa Massacre; notably, the group targets only security forces.[4] 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 28 November 2014.[11] The United States Department of State designated it a terrorist organization on 18 December 2014.[12]

On April 5 of 2015, Hammam Mohamed Attiyah, founder of Ajnad Misr was killed during a raid in Cairo. The group confirmed that been succeeded by Ezz al-Din al-Masry.[13][14]

Attacks

2014

  • The group claimed responsibility for an attack[15] that occurred on 24 January 2014 that ultimately killed four policeman and wounding 100 people,[16][17] 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.[18]
  • 31 January; An explosive device blast against a vehicle with Central Security Forces (CSF) officers, wounding one.[19][20] In the same day a double attack against a CSF camp in Giza Governorate left one officer wounded.[21][22]
  • The group claimed responsibility for two bombings that occurred on 7 February 2014, which left six officers of the Egyptian National Police (ENP) wounded.[7][23]
  • 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.[24]
  • The group exploded a bomb in 6th of October City on 5 March 2014.[25][26]
  • The group targeted a police car parked near the Israeli embassy in Cairo on 11 March 2014.[25][27]
  • The group placed a bomb in Nasr City on 29 March 2014.[25][28]
  • 2 April: One civilian and one police general was killed and four people were wounded in a coordinate quadruple bombing at Cairo University in Giza.[29][30]
  • 10 April: A miliant threw an explosive device under the vehicle of a police captain, detonating and wounding the officer, in 6th of October, Giza.[5][31][32] In the same day, and explosive device blasts in El-Houssari Square, without leaving victims.[31]
  • 15 April: Two policemen and a civilian wounded by a bomb in Giza.[5][33]
  • 18 April; One police officer was killed and other wounded by the group in Lebanon Square area, Mohandessin.ref name="News"/>[5][34]
  • 23 April: The group killed the Brigadier General Ahmed Zaki of the Central Security Forces in 6th of October, Giza.[35][36]
  • 30 June: A quadruple coordinate bombing in the Ittihadiya Palace in Heliopolis district, Cairo. The blasts kill two officers and wound other 10.[9][37][38]
  • 21 September: An improvised device near an Egyptian National Police (ENP) checkpoint in Boulaq Abu El-Ela neighborhood, Cairo, killing two police and wound 6 six more.[39][40]
  • 14 October: A bomb blasts near a metro station and the High Court of Justice on Ramses Street in Cairo, left 13 civilians wounded.[41][42]
  • 22 October: The group claimed responsibility for a bombing that occurred on 22 October 2014 near Cairo University that injured 11 people.[43][44]
  • 20 November; Militants threw an explosive device that detonated near an ENP checkpoint in Helwan (near Helwan University), Cairo, leaving five officers wounded.[45][46][47]
  • The group injured four policemen in a bombing that occurred on 5 December 2014 near Ain Shams University.[48]

2015

  • The group killed one policeman and injured three civilians in a January 2015 bombing in the Talbia district of Giza.[49]
  • 22 January: An assailant threw an explosive device at the presidential palace in Misr Al Gadida, Cairo, leaving an officer wounded.[50]
  • 23 January; A bomb blasts Alf Maskan neighborhood, Cairo, left four officers and a civilian wounded.[51][52] Two days later, a double attack in an anniversary of the Egyptian revolution left three officers wounded in Cairo.[53][54]
  • 13 February; an improvised device blasts killed one policeman and injured seven policemen and a civilian in Ain Shams neighborhood, Cairo.[55]
  • 28 March; An improvised device blasts in a metro station near Cairo University, leaving four officers and four civilians wounded.[24][56]
  • 5 April: The group claimed responsibility for a bombing in a ENP Checkpoint in Zamalek that killed one officer and wound three more. Ajnad Misr claimed the attack[57][58]
  • 13 April; Explosive devices blasts against a Transmission tower, in 6th of October city, Giza, leaving serious damage to the electric infrastructure.[59][60]
  • 16 July: An explosive device blasts in front of a building in Roxy Square, Heliopolis, leaving one officer wounded.[61][62]
  • 10 August; An improvised device blasts at a traffic sentry post near a courthouse in Cairo, killing a police captain and wounding three more.[63][64]

References

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