CAIRO, Oct. 23 (UPI) -- Seventy militants were killed and another 70 injured Sunday in possible retaliation to the killing one day earlier of a senior Egyptian officer and his driver outside his home in a suburb of Cairo.
Egypt's air forces struck Islamic State outposts in northern Sinai peninsula just west of Rafah near the border with Gaza early Sunday morning, according to the Arabic-language version of Sky News. Air forces also attacked vehicles belonging to jihadist extremist group Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis in Rafah and Sheikh Zuweid, the Jerusalem Post reported.