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Egyptian Army soldiers in Sinai peninsula, By the Egyptian Ministry of Defense On April 14, ISIS fighters carried out a large attack on a camp of the Egyptian Army in the center of the Sinai Peninsula, according to Egyptian sources. The Egyptian al-Dustour newspaper reported that eight Egyptian Army soldiers had been killed and fifteen others had been injured in the attack. Egyptian Army Spokesman Colonel Tamer Rifai said in an official statement that the Egyptian Army had repelled the attack. According to Col. Rifai, fourteen fighters of ISIS participated, all of them were well-armed and wearing suicide belts. Col. Rifai confirmed that all the attackers had been eliminated either by Egyptian Army soldiers or when they blew themselves up around the camp. This was the biggest ISIS attack since the beginning of  the Egyptian Army military operation in Sinai Peninsula “Sinai 2018” on February 9 . However, the ISIS-linked news agency Amaq has not commented on the attack yet.

A screenshot from the video ImageSat International released satellite photos showing an aftermath of the April 14 US-led strike on the so-called “Barzah Research and Development Center” in Syria. According to the Pentagon, the US and its allies launched 76 missiles at this center and all the missiles hit the target. imagesatintl @imagesatint Three main buildings were # destroyed as a result of the # strike at # Barzah # SSRC Research and Development Center # Damascus # Syria # Syriastrikes @ FoxNews 22:55 - 14 Apr 2018 180 198 people are talking about this Twitter Ads information and privacy According to the photos, all three buildings of the facility were destroyed. According to Syrian sources,  this facility has been mostly abandoned before the US-led strike. Some experts question the need of 76 missiles to destroy three “abandoned” buildings. The US said that this facility had been an active place where t

The guided missile cruiser USS Monterey fires a Tomahawk missile in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of operations, April 14, 2018. Navy photo by Lt. j.g Matthew Daniels THE CHAIN OF EVENTS: 1.  Early on April 14, the US, the UK and France delivered a massive missile strike on Syria using warships, fighter jets and strategic bombers. US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis described the strikes as “harder” than the 2017 strikes on Shayrat military airfield. However, he added that no further launches had been planned for the moment. “I’d like to address how  this evening’s strike were qualitatively and quantitatively different than 2017.  Last year we conducted a unilateral strike on a single site. The focus was on the aircraft associated with the Syrian chemical weapons attack in April of 2017. This evening we conducted strikes with two allies on multiple sites that will result in a long-term degradation of Syria’s capability to research, develop and employ chemical and biological weapons.