October 29, 2017 - Egypt's President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has replaced senior security officials following an ambush that claimed the life of 55 soldiers in the Western Desert. Siss’ recent reshuffle saw 11 security officials, including the head of the National Security Agency (NSA), lose their jobs or become assigned to other positions, reports Reuters.
General Mahmoud Shaarawy, the former head of the NSA, was assigned to handle port security and replaced by General Mahmoud Tawfiq, the Ahram newspaper reported. Sisi followed the shake-up with a meeting of his top security officials, in which he promised to tighten security and pursue the armed groups responsible for last week's attack.
At least 55 members of the security forces were killed during an ambush near the Bahariya Oasis in Egypt's Western Desert, about 180 miles southwest of the capital Cairo.
The attack was one of the deadliest on security forces in recent years, and came just over a month after a similar ambush in Sinai killed 18 soldiers.
An earlier attack in July on an army checkpoint in Sinai left 26 soldiers dead, including a colonel.
Both attacks were claimed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group, which has established a strong presence in the Sinai Peninsula.
Source: Aljazeera
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