Islamic State – Sinai Province (ISSP)

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and civilians in Egypt using small arms · and expanded its targets to include tourist sites · and Israeli economic interests. They have carried out repeated attacks against security forces · and October 2017. In 2022 · and surface-to-air missiles. In November 2014 · and the media. In August 2015 · April · at least eleven members of the Egyptian military had been killed in an armed attack on the Sinai Peninsula on a water-lifting station east of the Suez Canal. ISSP claimed responsibility for the attack. · formerly known as Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis · improvised explosive devices · including firing several rockets in February · is a Sunni Salafist Islamist extremist group based in the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt · Islamic State – Sinai Province (ISSP) · Israeli interests · ISSP claimed responsibility for downing Russian airliner KGL9268 over the Sinai through an improvised explosive device killing all 224 passengers aboard. ISSP continues to conduct cross-border attacks against Israel · ISSP claimed to have beheaded a Croatian national kidnapped and taken hostage in Cairo in July. Two months later · ISSP pledged its allegiance to the Islamic State (IS) · ISSP ranked ninth of the top 20 groups with the largest number of attributed deaths at 71. In May of that year · politicians · vehicle-born improvised explosive devices · Western embassies · Western interests · which first appeared in 2011. The primary objective of the group is the formation of an Islamic state in Egypt under Sharia Law. The primary targets of ISSP's violence include the Egyptian military and security services

Sanctions programs · 1

Source	Program	Name	Regime	Designated	Link
CA_LISTED_TERRORISTS	CA-LISTED-TERR	Canada Listed Terrorist Entities	Counter-terrorism	07/04/2015	source ↗

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