| Islamic Terrorism in Egypt |
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| Part of Terrorism in Egypt, the Egyptian Crisis, the War on terror, and the Arab Winter, and the Sinai insurgency |
Platform where Anwar Sadat was assassinated. |
| Date | 6 October 1981 – present |
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| Location | |
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| Status |
Ongoing |
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| Belligerents |
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Egypt
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Islamists:
Islamic State (from 2014)
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| Commanders and leaders |
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Abdel Fattah el-Sisi
Mostafa Madbouly
Mahmoud Tawfik
Abdel Mageed Saqr
Ahmed Fathy Khalifa
Ashraf Ibrahim Atwa
Mahmoud Foaad Abd El- Gawad
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Abu Hafs al-Hashimi al-Qurashi
Abu Hajar al-Hashemi
Abū al-Muḥtasib al-Maqdisī
Mohammed Badie
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| Strength |
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Total: 25,000 (41 battalions) |
Total: ≈12,000
IS: 1000-1500 |
| Casualties and losses |
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3,277 killed
12,280 Injured
IDF: 1 killed |
Thousands killed, Arrested, captured, or surrendered
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Civilian fatalities: 1,539+ Egyptian, 219 Russians, 4 Ukrainians, 1 Belarusian, 3 South Koreans, 3 Vietnamese, 2 Germans, 1 Croatian
Total: 5,853–7,353+ killed |
Terrorism in Egypt in the 20th and 21st centuries has targeted the Egyptian government officials, Egyptian police and Egyptian army members, tourists, Sufi Mosques and the Christian minority. Many attacks have been linked to Islamic extremism, and terrorism increased in the 1990s when the Islamist movement al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya targeted high-level political leaders and killed hundreds – including civilians – in its pursuit of implementing traditional Sharia law in Egypt.
Ayman al-Zawahiri, an Egyptian doctor and leader of Egyptian Islamic Jihad group, was believed to be behind the operations of al-Qaeda. As of 2015, four of 30 people on the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation "most wanted" terrorist list are Egyptian.
